GitVersion is incredibly slow on detached head

[ramonsmits]

When opening a solution on a detached head it takes ages to open due to GitVersionTask.

This often happens when you are rebasing and you want to edit a previous commit.

For some reason this is affecting VS2015 more then VS2013.

It takes minutes to load a solution and during that time VS is not responsive. This happens then for each rebase step. I simple rebase where you want to validate before committing takes ages.

After loading I also need to build it which also takes ages.

With the NServiceBus solution on a hotfix branch it can easily take more than 5 minutes on a macbook pro i7 2.5GHz if not 10.

[gep13]

Is the same true when using GitVersionTask 3.2.0? Would it be possible for you to try with the new version?

[pascalberger]

3.3.0 contains some performance improvements. Is this still an issue?

[ramonsmits]

I'll verify the performance with a later version this week.

[JakeGinnivan]

Going to close this, please create a new issue if you still have perf issues and we can look into it further.

[timbussmann]

Can confirm this is still an issue with version 3.4.1

[asbjornu]

@timbussmann Do you have any details? Is the repository you're testing this on public perchance so we can verify?

[ramonsmits]

@asbjornu Yes, https://github.com/Particular/nservicebus

[asbjornu]

@ramonsmits Is it a problem with gitversion.exe too? That's a bit easier to test.

[asbjornu]

It would also be interesting to know how you're able to actually get a version number out of GitVersion, since GitVersionFinder.EnsureHeadIsNotDetached() should ensure that the commit isn't a detached head by throwing an exception.

[timbussmann]

@asbjornu so I was able to reproduce it by rebasing some branch with multiple commits with merge conflicts. So after the first rebased commit I hit the issue as soon as the rebase stops because of a merge conflicts occurs.

I think GitVersionFinder.EnsureHeadIsNotDetached() works since I get these outputs:

2>MSBUILD : warning : WARN [06/29/16 17:16:03:33] Could not determine assembly version: GitVersion.WarningException: It looks like the branch being examined is a detached Head pointing to commit 'd3a2363'. Without a proper branch name GitVersion cannot determine the build version.
2>MSBUILD : warning :    at GitVersion.GitVersionFinder.EnsureHeadIsNotDetached(GitVersionContext context)
2>MSBUILD : warning :    at GitVersion.GitVersionFinder.EnsureMainTopologyConstraints(GitVersionContext context)
2>MSBUILD : warning :    at GitVersion.GitVersionFinder.FindVersion(GitVersionContext context)
2>MSBUILD : warning :    at GitVersion.ExecuteCore.ExecuteInternal(String targetBranch, String commitId, IRepository repo, GitPreparer gitPreparer, String projectRoot, IBuildServer buildServer)
2>MSBUILD : warning :    at GitVersion.ExecuteCore.ExecuteGitVersion(String targetUrl, String dynamicRepositoryLocation, Authentication authentication, String targetBranch, Boolean noFetch, String workingDirectory, String commitId)
2>MSBUILD : warning :    at GitVersion.ExecuteCore.TryGetVersion(String directory, VersionVariables& versionVariables, Boolean noFetch, Authentication authentication)
2>MSBUILD : warning : WARN [06/29/16 17:16:35:06] Could not determine assembly version: GitVersion.WarningException: It looks like the branch being examined is a detached Head pointing to commit 'd3a2363'. Without a proper branch name GitVersion cannot determine the build version.
2>MSBUILD : warning :    at GitVersion.GitVersionFinder.EnsureHeadIsNotDetached(GitVersionContext context)
2>MSBUILD : warning :    at GitVersion.GitVersionFinder.EnsureMainTopologyConstraints(GitVersionContext context)
2>MSBUILD : warning :    at GitVersion.GitVersionFinder.FindVersion(GitVersionContext context)
2>MSBUILD : warning :    at GitVersion.ExecuteCore.ExecuteInternal(String targetBranch, String commitId, IRepository repo, GitPreparer gitPreparer, String projectRoot, IBuildServer buildServer)
2>MSBUILD : warning :    at GitVersion.ExecuteCore.ExecuteGitVersion(String targetUrl, String dynamicRepositoryLocation, Authentication authentication, String targetBranch, Boolean noFetch, String workingDirectory, String commitId)
2>MSBUILD : warning :    at GitVersion.ExecuteCore.TryGetVersion(String directory, VersionVariables& versionVariables, Boolean noFetch, Authentication authentication)
2>MSBUILD : warning : WARN [06/29/16 17:17:08:38] Could not determine assembly version: GitVersion.WarningException: It looks like the branch being examined is a detached Head pointing to commit 'd3a2363'. Without a proper branch name GitVersion cannot determine the build version.
2>MSBUILD : warning :    at GitVersion.GitVersionFinder.EnsureHeadIsNotDetached(GitVersionContext context)
2>MSBUILD : warning :    at GitVersion.GitVersionFinder.EnsureMainTopologyConstraints(GitVersionContext context)
2>MSBUILD : warning :    at GitVersion.GitVersionFinder.FindVersion(GitVersionContext context)
2>MSBUILD : warning :    at GitVersion.ExecuteCore.ExecuteInternal(String targetBranch, String commitId, IRepository repo, GitPreparer gitPreparer, String projectRoot, IBuildServer buildServer)
2>MSBUILD : warning :    at GitVersion.ExecuteCore.ExecuteGitVersion(String targetUrl, String dynamicRepositoryLocation, Authentication authentication, String targetBranch, Boolean noFetch, String workingDirectory, String commitId)
2>MSBUILD : warning :    at GitVersion.ExecuteCore.TryGetVersion(String directory, VersionVariables& versionVariables, Boolean noFetch, Authentication authentication)

as you can see from the timestamps it takes ~30 secs between each entry which we get for every project in the solution, making a build take multiple minutes.

[asbjornu]

@timbussmann Aha. So EnsureHeadIsNotDetached() is throwing, but it's still taking ages to get to the point where the detached head check is being performed. I see. I have to wonder what exactly is taking so long inbetween there, though. Do you think it's possible to set Verbosity to Diagnostic in MSBuild while running this (on the command line) and pasting here what is then being logged? Thanks!

[timbussmann]

@asbjornu I uploaded a gist of the build log here: https://gist.github.com/timbussmann/939f433cc7894ba43cb92b1dd1f7780c