Re: [BUG] git shortlog hangs in bare repo

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 25, 2010, 21:50 UTC
Message-ID: <20100425215042.GA25547@progeny.tock>
In-Reply-To: <u2i76c5b8581004221222ge8bb0b8cp55cb1f13d5f9692a@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Eugene,

Eugene Sajine wrote:

> I have tried to run this command in order to get some stats from the
> mainline bare repo. The result is that "shortlog" hangs for long
> period of time and nothing happens. At the same time git log works OK.

I’m a big shortlog fan, too, but I should mention a certain performance characteristic: to sort its results by author, it has to build the whole log before it can print anything to standard output at all. git log, on the other hand, starts printing the most pertinent output right away.

Not sure that’s the problem, but thought I should mention it.

It would be nice to know what git version you are using, to be able to check for relevant differences between your setup and mine.

Thanks for the report, Jonathan

The most interesting recent change I could find is in v1.7.1-rc0~85^2 (shortlog: warn the user when there is no input, 2010-02-24). That is for the no-repository case rather than the bare-repository one.