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Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] line-log: towards a more responsive, incremental 'git log -L'

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SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 19, 2019, 15:02 UTC
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<20190819150245.GV20404@szeder.dev>
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On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 10:50:48AM -0400, Derrick Stolee wrote:
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> Note that I don't include the "without patch" numbers. For some
> reason the path provided is particularly nasty and caused 20,000+
> missing blobs to be downloaded one-by-one (remember: VFS for Git
> has many partial-clone-like behaviors). I canceled my test after 55
> minutes. I'll dig in more to see what is going on, since only 37
> commits actually change that path.

Don't bother digging into it, I know why it happens (and how to avoid it! :), but don't have the time right now to explain.

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Message 13 of 17 in “line-log: towards a more responsive, incremental 'git log -L'”
  1. 0/5 line-log: towards a more responsive, incremental 'git log -L'SZEDER Gábor, Aug 18, 2019
  2. 1/5 completion: offer '--(no-)patch' among 'git log' optionsSZEDER Gábor, Aug 18, 2019
  3. 2/5 line-log: remove unused fields from 'struct line_log_data'SZEDER Gábor, Aug 18, 2019
  4. Derrick StoleeAug 19, 2019
  5. 3/5 t4211-line-log: add tests for parent oidsSZEDER Gábor, Aug 18, 2019
  6. 4/5 line-log: more responsive, incremental 'git log -L'SZEDER Gábor, Aug 18, 2019
  7. SZEDER GáborAug 19, 2019
  8. Derrick StoleeAug 19, 2019
  9. 5/5 line-log: try to use generation number-based topo-orderingSZEDER Gábor, Aug 18, 2019
  10. Derrick StoleeAug 19, 2019
  11. SZEDER GáborAug 19, 2019
  12. Derrick StoleeAug 19, 2019
  13. SZEDER GáborAug 19, 2019
  14. Derrick StoleeAug 19, 2019
  15. SZEDER GáborAug 21, 2019
  16. Derrick StoleeApr 9, 2020
  17. SZEDER GáborApr 24, 2020

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