Re: Performance issue of 'git branch'

Hi,


On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 01:59:14AM +0200, Carlos R. Mafra wrote:

I don't know why .git/refs/heads/stern does not exist and why it takes
so long with it. That branch is functional ('git checkout stern' succeeds),
as well as all the others. But strangely .git/refs/heads/ contains only

[mafra@Pilar:linux-2.6]$ ls .git/refs/heads/
dev-private  master  sparse

which, apart from "master", are the last branches that I created.

I occasionally run 'git gc --aggressive --prune" to optimize the repo,
but other than that I don't do anything fancy, just 'pull' almost
every day and 'bisect' (which is becoming a rare event now :-)

So I would like to ask what should I do to recover the missing files
in .git/refs/heads/ (which apparently is the cause for my issue) and
how I can avoid losing them in the first place.

have a look at .git/packed-refs and 'git pack-refs'.


Best,
Gábor