Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)
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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
- Date
- Jan 11, 2007, 14:59 UTC
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On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
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> Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > > Where we really get hit is the large number of possible tags. The > > master branch is turning up 14 tags, some dating back to v1.4.1-rc1. > > I do try to abort the revision list as soon as one of those tags > > cannot give me a better selection than the one I have currently, > > but I still had to generate a revision list to reach that point. > > > > It could be worth skipping tags more than 6 months older than current > branch-head. That would, at least for the git case, cut the number of tags > down by a considerable amount.
This is bound to be wrong in some cases if a project is very active with many tags, or if there was a long period of inactivity. And what would be the benefit? Saving 250ms on git-describe output latency?
Nicolas