On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 03:56:09AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
[1/4]: peel_ref: use faster deref_tag_noverify
[2/4]: peel_ref: do not return a null sha1
[3/4]: peel_ref: check object type before loading
[4/4]: upload-pack: use peel_ref for ref advertisements
I included my own timings in the final one, but my "pathological" case
at the end is a somewhat made-up attempt to emulate what you described.
Can you double-check that this series still has a nice impact on your
real-world repository?
-Peff