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gitk startup time improvement

From
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Date
Aug 30, 2007, 12:01 UTC
Message-ID
<18134.45449.527540.940620@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
In the 'dev' branch of the gitk.git repository at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/gitk/gitk.git

there is now a version of gitk that is much faster at starting up than the standard version. Firstly, it doesn't lay out the whole graph, only the parts that get displayed (plus a little bit either side), and secondly, it caches the topology information that is used to determine which tags a commit precedes and follows, and which branches it is on.

I'd like people to try it. Comments, bug reports, patches etc. are welcome, of course.

Paul.
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