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git_ui: Avoid cloning repository snapshot when rendering Git graph - #66180
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Summary
While looking into some performance issues with larger repositories, I noticed that we call the method snapshot inside the commit details & ref label render function, that clones the whole snapshot even though we only need to know the branch name. So we don't have to own/know the whole snapshot/state, so we can avoid doing this by using the deref reference of the repository snapshot.
Testing
I tested that it still shows the right branch, which it should. Because we still point to the same value, but we just skip a clone per ref label that is inside the git graph :).
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