Re: [StGit RFC] Make "stg branch -l" faster by getting all git config information in one call

From: David Kågedal <davidk@lysator.liu.se>
Date: Dec 13, 2007, 14:15 UTC
Message-ID: <87odcur88x.fsf@lysator.liu.se>
In-Reply-To: <b0943d9e0712130604r6daf05d5n7afbadfe23831839@mail.gmail.com>

"Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@gmail.com> writes:

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> On 13/12/2007, David Kågedal <davidk@lysator.liu.se> wrote:
>> I have a fair amount of branches, and I noticed that "stg branch -l"
>> takes ridiculously long to finish.
>
> I have the same problem.
>
>> Maybe someone can help me find a quicker replacement for the
>> get_protected call?
>
> We can have the standard --list command which ignores the protected
> flag or even the stgit.formatversion. Just a simple listing of the
> branches (that's what I need most of the time). To get the
> description, the 's' and 'p' flags, we could use --list-full or
> something similar and wait a bit longer. This would also improve the
> bash completion of commands taking branch names as arguments.

If you remove everything but the branch name, you will have identical output to "git branch", but much slower. Then there is no reason to use it. The reason I used "stg branch -l" was that I found it interesting to know which branches I had initialized with stgit, and I could see uses for the description as well.

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David Kågedal