Re: Following renames

From: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
Date: Mar 26, 2006, 07:35 UTC
Message-ID: <44264426.8010608@michonline.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0603251919170.15714@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Sun, 26 Mar 2006, Petr Baudis wrote:
>   
>>   In [1], Linus suggests a non-core solution. Unfortunately, it doesn't
>> fly - it requires at least two git-ls-tree calls per revision which
>> would bog things down awfully (to roughly half of the original speed).
>>     
>
> No it doesn't. It requires one git-ls-tree WHEN SOMETHING IS RENAMED.
>
> In other words, basically never.
>

A simple example is the first loop in git-annotate.perl. (Which was basically written by Linus, I just translated it from a shell/pseudo-code example into Perl)

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Ryan Anderson
  sometimes Pug Majere