From: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 10:27:11 GMT
Subject: Re: Poor performance of git describe in big repos
Message-ID: <87txlj30n4.fsf@linux-k42r.v.cablecom.net>
In-Reply-To: <87y5av4jvj.fsf@linux-k42r.v.cablecom.net>

Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch> writes:

> However, if that turns out to be the culprit, it's not fixable
> currently[1].  Having commits with insanely long messages is just, well,
> insane.
>
> [1]  unless we do a major rework of the loading infrastructure, so that
> we can teach it to load only the beginning of a commit as long as we are
> only interested in parents and such

Actually, Peff, doesn't your commit parent/tree pointer caching give us
this for free?

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch