From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 19:28:01 GMT
Subject: Re: Fast access git-rev-list output: some OS knowledge required
Message-ID: <20061206192800.GC20320@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <e5bfff550612061124jcd0d94em47793710866776e7@mail.gmail.com>

Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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