From: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 19:34:31 GMT
Subject: Re: Fast access git-rev-list output: some OS knowledge required
Message-ID: <e5bfff550612061134r3725dcbu2ff2dd6284fcd651@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20061206192800.GC20320@spearce.org>

On 12/6/06, Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The time it takes to read, without processing, the whole Linux tree
> > with this approach it's almost _double_ of the time it takes 'git
> > rev-list' to write to a file:
> >
> > 3) Other suggestions?  ;-)
>
> The revision listing machinery is fairly well isolated behind some
> pretty clean APIs in Git.  Why not link qgit against libgit.a and
> just do the revision listing in process?
>

Where can I found some documentation (yes I know RTFS, but...) or,
better, an example of using the API to read git-rev-list output?

if it is possible I also would like to avoid to mess with internal git
API's, of course *if it is possible*  ;-)

Thanks