Re: Performance issue of 'git branch'

"Shawn O. Pearce" [off-list ref] writes:

Theodore Tso [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 02:21:20PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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I wonder if there is some way to only load the crazy curl stuff when we 
actually want open a http: connection.

Well, we could use dlopen(), but I'm not sure that qualifies as a
_sane_ solution --- especially given that there are approximately 15
interfaces used by git, that we'd have to resolve using dlsym().

Yea, that's not sane.

Probably the better approach is to have git fetch and git push be a
different binary from main git, so we only pay the libcurl loading
overheads when we hit transport.

Even though that still will hurt people who do not use http, I think it
would be a right approach (in the sense that it should not be too painful
and with a reasonable gain for local-only operations).