Re: Poor performance of git describe in big repos

Thomas Rast [off-list ref] writes:

However, if that turns out to be the culprit, it's not fixable
currently[1].  Having commits with insanely long messages is just, well,
insane.

[1]  unless we do a major rework of the loading infrastructure, so that
we can teach it to load only the beginning of a commit as long as we are
only interested in parents and such

Actually, Peff, doesn't your commit parent/tree pointer caching give us
this for free?

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