Re: Change set based shallow clone

From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Date: Sep 8, 2006, 23:45 UTC
Message-ID: <17666.142.886652.667529@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910609081628w2a59551foc28c689d0538a984@mail.gmail.com>

Jon Smirl writes:

> gitk takes about a minute to come up on the Mozilla repo when
> everything is in cache. It  takes about twice as long when things are
> cold. It's enough of delay that I don't use the tool.

How long does it take for git rev-list --topo-order to produce its first line of output, in the cache-hot case? That is, is it just gitk's graph layout that is taking the time, or is it git rev-list (meaning that gitk needs to stop using --topo-order)?

Paul.

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