From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:45:12 GMT
Subject: Re: How to efficiently blame an entire repo?
Message-ID: <x2s32541b131004301245o46d8e855va0b51ebce279398b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <r2l76718491004291612qbe0834ela89f0606e5f477e2@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> wrote:
> Let's say you've got a repo with ~ 40K files and 35K commits.
> Well-packed .git is about 800MB.
>
> You want to find out how many lines of code a particular group of
> individuals has contributed to HEAD.
>[...]
> Am I missing a clever solution?

How often do you need to do this?  If it's just once in your life,
then the brute force solution of just letting 'git blame' grind
through it for a few hours is probably the cleverest :)

Have fun,

Avery