Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 11, 2007, 08:53 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701110949421.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7v3b6i75i5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Show 6 quoted lines

> * ar/merge-recursive (Wed Jan 10 11:20:58 2007 -0800) 2 commits
>  + merge-recursive: do not use on-file index when not needed.
>  + Speed-up recursive by flushing index only once for all entries
> 
> I did not see much improvement (maybe a largish kernel merge
> going from 2.5 seconds to slightly less than one second)

That is a heck of an improvement. It is only uses 40% of the time it used before! On other machines, with other OSes, this makes the difference between 10 minutes and 4 minutes.

BTW I am not quite sure if you missed this patch: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/36212/, or if you did not like it, want enhancements, ...

Ciao, Dscho