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Re: Fast access git-rev-list output: some OS knowledge required

From
Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Dec 6, 2006, 19:28 UTC
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<20061206192800.GC20320@spearce.org>
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Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com> wrote:
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> The time it takes to read, without processing, the whole Linux tree
> with this approach it's almost _double_ of the time it takes 'git
> rev-list' to write to a file:
> 
> 3) Other suggestions?  ;-)

The revision listing machinery is fairly well isolated behind some pretty clean APIs in Git. Why not link qgit against libgit.a and just do the revision listing in process?

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