James Hawkins e5bbb5c9e6 upload: prune ref scans for untouched projects and specific branches
Benchmark (100 untouched projects):
* GetUploadableBranches: 0.985s -> 0.0004s (2,200x faster)
* repo upload (3,045 projects): saves ~2.5s of redundant ref scans

During `repo upload`, `GetUploadableBranches()` currently scans
`self._allrefs` across all projects in the workspace. In large
manifests (e.g. Android with 3,000+ projects), `self._allrefs`
executes `git for-each-ref`, `git symbolic-ref`, and full filesystem
mtime traversals on thousands of projects where no local branch was
ever started or modified.

Any branch that can be uploaded for review must have upstream tracking
configured via `[branch "..."]` sections in `.git/config`
(otherwise `branch.LocalMerge` is None and `GetUploadableBranch`
returns None).

This patch introduces early-pruning fast paths:
1. When no branch subsections exist in `.git/config`
   (or only 2-part keys like `branch.autosetupmerge`), return []
   immediately without touching `_allrefs`.
2. When a `selected_branch` is specified (e.g. `repo upload --br=...`),
   query `branch.LocalMerge`, `refs/heads/<branch>`, and
   `refs/published/<branch>` directly, skipping the whole-tree
   ref scan.
3. In `subcmds/upload.py`, optimize `_GetMergeBranch` to resolve the
   merge branch in-memory via `project.CurrentBranch` and
   `project.GetBranch()` instead of spawning two `GitCommand`
   processes.

Test: ./run_tests tests/test_project.py tests/test_subcmds_upload.py
Change-Id: I3c2c9d63a68a393d478e1fb50f548ec8b7d44639
Reviewed-on: https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/git-repo/+/623021
Reviewed-by: Brian Gan <brgan@google.com>
Commit-Queue: James Hawkins <jhawkins@google.com>
Tested-by: James Hawkins <jhawkins@google.com>
2026-08-28 16:07:01 -07:00

repo

Repo is a tool built on top of Git. Repo helps manage many Git repositories, does the uploads to revision control systems, and automates parts of the development workflow. Repo is not meant to replace Git, only to make it easier to work with Git. The repo command is an executable Python script that you can put anywhere in your path.

Contact

Please use the repo-discuss mailing list or issue tracker for questions.

You can file a new bug report under the "repo" component.

Please do not e-mail individual developers for support. They do not have the bandwidth for it, and often times questions have already been asked on repo-discuss or bugs posted to the issue tracker. So please search those sites first.

Install

Many distros include repo, so you might be able to install from there.

# Debian/Ubuntu.
$ sudo apt-get install repo

# Gentoo.
$ sudo emerge dev-vcs/repo

You can install it manually as well as it's a single script.

$ mkdir -p ~/.bin
$ PATH="${HOME}/.bin:${PATH}"
$ curl https://storage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo > ~/.bin/repo
$ chmod a+rx ~/.bin/repo

Shell Completion

Repo includes completion scripts for Bash and Zsh.

Bash

To enable completion in Bash, source completion.bash in your ~/.bashrc:

source /path/to/git-repo/completion.bash

Zsh

To enable completion in Zsh, you can either:

  1. Copy or symlink completion.zsh to a file named _repo in a directory in your $fpath:

    mkdir -p ~/.zsh/completion
    # You can copy the file:
    cp /path/to/git-repo/completion.zsh ~/.zsh/completion/_repo
    # Or symlink it:
    ln -s /path/to/git-repo/completion.zsh ~/.zsh/completion/_repo
    

    Then add that directory to your fpath in ~/.zshrc before compinit:

    fpath=(~/.zsh/completion $fpath)
    autoload -Uz compinit
    compinit
    
  2. Or source the file directly and call compdef in your ~/.zshrc:

    source /path/to/git-repo/completion.zsh
    compdef _repo repo
    
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