From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:48:36 GMT
Subject: Re: Why is --pretty=format: so slow?
Message-ID: <7vhck2s02z.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <472D9F6E.8070609@lsrfire.ath.cx>

René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> writes:

> Incidentally, I'm finishing a patch series to add git-describe style
> placeholders.  It needs such an optimization even more badly (and has
> it).  Speeding up other slow placeholder expansions falls out quite
> naturally.  Please wait just a few minutes..

Thanks, and take your time, as I am just going to bed, dreaming
for a perfect series from one of the few people on this list
whose patches I do not have to read to reject crap, but I do
read to get impressed and admire ;-)