Re: git log causing hang while browsing upstream linux

From: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 16, 2023, 07:09 UTC
Message-ID: <20230416070906.GA3271@szeder.dev>
In-Reply-To: <ZDSjBQhyDBGi9wBN@nand.local>

On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 08:00:05PM -0400, Taylor Blau wrote:

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> On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 10:37:15PM +0530, Rohit Ner wrote:
> > I have not given the command more than 10 seconds, shouldn't the
> > intended behaviour be to render the visible subgraph first?
> 
> This is possible with Git's "commit-graph" feature, which you can read
> about starting here:
> 
> 		https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/supercharging-the-git-commit-graph/
> 
> TL;DR: if you run "git commit-graph write"

Please never recommend 'git commit-graph write' without '--reachable'; scanning all packed objects to find commits to include in the commit-graph is just too inefficient for that.

> once before running "git log
> --oneline --graph", you'll get near-instantaneous results.

The commit-graph has been enabled by default in v2.24.0, released over three years ago. I wonder why Rohit's and/or Kristoffer's repos didn't have it already?!