Re: [PATCH v3-wip] revision traversal: show full history with merge simplification
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
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> On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>
>> The same query with 's/| head -n 1/>/dev/null' is more expensive. In fact
>> it is much more expensive than the non-incremental one (v2), and about
>> three times more expensive than non-limiting --full-history for explaining
>> the history of kernel/printk.c.
>
> Hmm? Why is that, exactly? Does it walk over the same commit over and over
> and over again or something?
>
> Can you combine --simplify-merges and --topo-order to get a fast version
> again (since --topo-order will force a non-incrmental walk)?
Heh, nice try to make my head explode ;-) Not today, no, really, no...