From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 22:50:43 GMT
Subject: Re: Why is --graph --max-count=n so much slower than --graph HEAD~n..?
Message-ID: <xmqq61l0rrng.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <vnkwd2f8ayea.fsf@mitchelh-linux.qualcomm.com>

Mitchel Humpherys <mitch.special@gmail.com> writes:

> I've noticed that --max-count doesn't seem to speed up `git log --graph'
> computation time.

AFAIK, --graph wants to compute the whole history and the max-count
only affects the output phase after --graph does its computation.

Besides, "log --max-count=n" and "log HEAD~n.." compute completely
different things, so the comparison is apples and oranges.