Re: Can I have this, pretty please?

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Aug 12, 2007, 19:24 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708121219540.30176@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <85abswo9gf.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>

On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, David Kastrup wrote:

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> > But to visualize a history, it's useless.
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> Not half as useless as existing git-specific tools.  They thrash my
> computer to death on serious sized trees.

So, use "git log --pretty=oneline" instead, which doesn't have the expense.

I don't see why you think that using nntp would help anything. The _problem_ is still the same one, of calculating full reachability. It didn't go away just because you changed to another intermediate protocol.

Yes, you could perhaps use the nntp caching, but I don't know if you've noticed: the reason news servers tend to expire old messages is that a news reader and the NNTP protocol won't be able to handle huge histories either.

And if you just want the "expire" feature, then you might as well just make git date-limit things for you, ie "gitk --since=last.week"

			Linus