Re: [PATCH 4/8] git-remote-mediawiki: get rid of O(N^2) loop

> Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> writes:
>
>> The algorithm to find a path from the local revision to the remote one
>> was calling "git rev-list" and parsing its output N times. Run rev-list
>> only once, and fill a hashtable with the result to optimize the body of
>> the loop.
>
> Good thinking.  I wonder if it would further reduce the overhead if
> you stop using --children and do this using --parents instead, as
> you will be reading the parsed_sha1..local range either way yourself
> anyway.