Re: [BUG] git shortlog hangs in bare repo

From: Eugene Sajine <euguess@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 26, 2010, 18:03 UTC
Message-ID: <n2i76c5b8581004261103k287ce0fax7b3a511dbb72c95b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100425215042.GA25547@progeny.tock>

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi Eugene,
>
> Eugene Sajine wrote:
>
>> I have tried to run this command in order to get some stats from the
>> mainline bare repo. The result is that "shortlog" hangs for long
>> period of time and nothing happens. At the same time git log works OK.
>
> I’m a big shortlog fan, too, but I should mention a certain performance
> characteristic: to sort its results by author, it has to build the whole
> log before it can print anything to standard output at all.  git log,
> on the other hand, starts printing the most pertinent output right away.
>
> Not sure that’s the problem, but thought I should mention it.
>
> It would be nice to know what git version you are using, to be able to
> check for relevant differences between your setup and mine.
>
> Thanks for the report,
> Jonathan
>
> The most interesting recent change I could find is in v1.7.1-rc0~85^2
> (shortlog: warn the user when there is no input, 2010-02-24).  That is
> for the no-repository case rather than the bare-repository one.
>

Hi,

This is happening in Git 1.6.5.6. The case here is that for the same project (same repo) in bare shortlog is not working, in non-bare it is working instantaneously.

Thanks, Eugene