Re: [PATCH/RFC 2/2] Make path-limiting be incremental when possible.

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mar 31, 2006, 08:28 UTC
Message-ID: <7v1wwjvwz9.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0603301652531.27203@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

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> This is an absolutely huge deal for anything like "git log -- <pathname>", 
> but also for some things that we don't do yet - like the "find where 
> things changed" logic I've described elsewhere, where we want to find the 
> previous revision that changed a file.
>...
> Btw, don't even bother testing this with the git archive. git itself is so 
> small that parsing the whole revision history for it takes about a second 
> even with path limiting.

By the way, I forgot to praise you ;-).

Even on a fast machine, the old one was not very useful, but this one is _instantaneous_. Very good job.

$ PAGER=cat GIT_DIR=/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/ \
  /usr/bin/time git log -1 --pretty=short -- drivers/
commit ce362c009250340358a7221f3cdb7954cbf19c01
Merge: 064c94f... cd7a920...
Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>

    Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kyle/parisc-2.6

15.44user 0.19system 0:25.11elapsed 62%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (0major+18050minor)pagefaults 0swaps

$ PAGER=cat GIT_DIR=/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/ \
  /usr/bin/time ./git.pu log -1 --pretty=short -- drivers/
commit ce362c009250340358a7221f3cdb7954cbf19c01
Merge: 064c94f... cd7a920...
Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>

    Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kyle/parisc-2.6

0.00user 0.00system 0:00.00elapsed 50%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (0major+388minor)pagefaults 0swaps