Re: [PATCH (GIT-GUI) 0/3] Improve gui blame usability for large repositories

> Alexander Gavrilov <angavrilov@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Full copy detection can take quite some time on large repositories, which
> > substantially decreases perceived usability of the 'git gui blame' command.
> > This set of patches tries to overcome it by:
> > 
> > 1) Allowing the user to disable '-C -C' and/or set the detection threshold.
> > 
> > 2) Explicitly killing back-end processes, which don't produce any output
> >   during copy detection, and thus normally won't receive SIGPIPE until
> >   it is finished. Runaway processes are annoying.
> > 
> > 3) To compensate for (1), adding a context menu item to manually invoke
> >   blame -C -C -C on a group of lines.
> 
> This series is nicely done.  Works well on revision.c in git.git,
> where the blame can be costly to compute with full copy detection.
> And getting the incremental from the context menu also works well.