From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 03:50:00 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701102241230.4964@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <7v3b6i75i5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

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

> * jc/detached-head (Tue Jan 9 20:39:09 2007 -0800) 9 commits

I want to say that this is really great and well done.

> * sp/describe (Wed Jan 10 06:39:47 2007 -0500) 1 commit
>  - Chose better tag names in git-describe after merges.
> 
> Slowing it down by 4x is very unfortunate.  I think there is a
> better way to walk the ancestry than doing one at a time to
> count the commits, but I did not have enough time to look at
> this today.

However git-describe is certainly not a frequent and speed critical 
operation, and 
even if it cannot be sped up then waiting 300 ms more won't really 
affect one's workflow that badly.


Nicolas