From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 08:29:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [External] Re: git-blame extremely slow in partial clones due to serial object fetching
Message-ID: <xmqqv7wf8ydw.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <972d0904-650b-4161-a13c-e3081d55a212@gmail.com>

Shubham Kanodia <shubham.kanodia10@gmail.com> writes:

> Junio — would it make sense to add an option (and config) for `git
> blame` that limits how far back it looks for fetching blobs?

No, I do not think it would.

What would our workaround for the next one when people say "oh, 'git
log -p' fetches blobs on demand and latency kills me"?  Yet another
such an option only for 'git log'?