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Quickly searching for a note

From
Joshua Jensen <jjensen@workspacewhiz.com>
Date
Sep 21, 2012, 14:41 UTC
Message-ID
<505C7C80.3000700@workspacewhiz.com>
Background: To tie Perforce changelists to Git commits, I add a note to 
a commit with the form "P4@123456".  Later, I use the note to sync down 
the closest Perforce changelist matching the Git commit.
I search for these notes by getting a list of revisions:
         git rev-list --max-count=1000
I iterate those revisions and run git show and grep on each:
         git show -s --format=%N%n%s --show-notes=p4notes COMMIT

For short runs, this isn't so bad. For longer runs of commits (I just walked through approximately 100), it takes a long time. Running 'git show' is costing me about 7/10 of second, presumably because I am on Windows.

Is there a faster way to do this?
Thanks.
Josh
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