Re: git log causing hang while browsing upstream linux

From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Date: Apr 4, 2023, 20:27 UTC
Message-ID: <5b99135f-c1d4-434b-b508-35f5d66dd2bb@app.fastmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAKazavxTXwcZFtL2XyU3MpaUR=snWY8w8Lwpco+mkbqm2nWE=w@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Apr 4, 2023, at 22:13, Rohit Ner wrote:

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> Thank you for filling out a Git bug report!
> Please answer the following questions to help us understand your issue.
>
> What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue)
> 1. git clone https://github.com/torvalds/linux.git
> 2. git checkout master
> 3. git log --oneline --graph

Seems like `--graph` is expensive.

FWIW: on my machine:

    $ time git log --oneline --graph | head -1 
    *   76f598ba7d8e Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm

    real	0m10.616s
    user	0m9.594s
    sys	0m0.654s

Second attempt is only marginally faster.

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Kristoffer Haugsbakk