On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 4:06 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
[off-list ref] wrote:

I noticed that it takes a *long* time to generate the graph, on a bigger
repo I have it takes 20 minutes, and this is a repo where repack -A -d
itself takes 5-8 minutes, probably on the upper end of that with the
bitmap, but once you do that it's relatively snappy with --stdin-commits
--additive when I feed it the new commits.

I don't have any need really to make this run in 10m instead of 20m,
just something I found interesting, i.e. how it compares to the repack
itself.

You should forget '--stdin-packs' and use '--stdin-commits' to generate
the initial graph, it's much faster even without '--additive'[1].  See

  https://public-inbox.org/git/CAM0VKj=wmkBNH=psCRztXFrC13RiG1EaSw89Q6LJaNsdJDEFHg@mail.gmail.com/

I still think that the default behaviour for 'git commit-graph write'
should simply walk history from all refs instead of enumerating all
objects in all packfiles.


[1] - Please excuse the bikeshed: '--additive' is such a strange
      sounding option name, at least for me.  '--append', perhaps?