From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:36:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3-wip] revision traversal: show full history with merge simplification
Message-ID: <7v63qly93u.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0807311513020.3277@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> 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...