Re: Git is not scalable with too many refs/*

Martin Fick wrote:

I suspect that there are several commands in git 
which inadvertently scan all the refs when they probably 
shouldn't. [...] I feel like git checkout is one of those cases, 
it does not seem like git checkout should be affected by the 
number of refs in a repo?

git-checkout checks whether you are leaving any unreferenced
(orphaned) commits behind when you leave a detached HEAD, which
requires that it scan the history of all refs for the commit you just
left.

So unless you disable that warning it'll be pretty expensive
regardless.

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Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch