Re: how to speed up "git log"?

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 17, 2007, 23:20 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702180019040.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <200702172019.20536.bruno@clisp.org>

Hi,

On Sat, 17 Feb 2007, Bruno Haible wrote:

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> Alex Riesen wrote:
> > MacOS X is famous for its bad perfomance when doing serious work.
> > The mmap(2) of it, in particular.
> 
> You can't blame MacOS X mmap(2) for git's slow execution of "git log".

No, but you can blame the person calling git log and waiting until it finishes. See the list archives for reasons why.

If this comes up one more time, I'm very tempted to write a scathing remark in the FAQ.

Ciao, Dscho