From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 21:30:27 GMT
Subject: Re: GIT_TRACE_PERFORMANCE and pager
Message-ID: <20160229213026.GB25342@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAP8UFD30fWvFPtSgY_6mVMCeQ9rMR-0EODaKbZdMmz_fo-qfKw@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 02:46:12PM +0100, Christian Couder wrote:

> > though I guess I'd question whether trace-performance is interesting at
> > all for a paged command, since it is also counting the length of time
> > you spend looking at the pager waiting to hit "q".
> 
> In case of "GIT_TRACE_PERFORMANCE=2 git log -1", it doesn't count the
> time spent looking at the pager because the output is small, so 'less'
> exits immediately, and it could give the impression that
> GIT_TRACE_PERFORMANCE is not working.

Ah, right. I don't use "-F" with less, so mine hangs around until I
quit.

-Peff