From: Paul Mackerras Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 23:45:18 GMT Subject: Re: Change set based shallow clone 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.