Re: [PATCH 00/12] Integrating line-log and changed-path Bloom filters

> This series is organized as follows:
>
>  * Patches 1-4 are minor Bloom filter cleanups, including a documentation
>    bug.
>    
>    
>  * Patch 5 fixes a problem where the Bloom filters use much larger filters
>    than expected.
>    
>    
>  * Patch 6 fixes a bug related to the short-circuit of large diffs from
>    e369698016 (diff: halt tree-diff early after max_changes, 2020-03-30).
>    The condition for halting the diff computation is different than the
>    check in bloom.c to see if that short-circuit was hit, which leads to
>    some commits with large diffs getting an incomplete Bloom filter. This
>    happened on the root commit of the Linux kernel repo, for example.
> ...   
> I organized these patches so patches 1-6 could be split into its own topic,
> if beneficial to take earlier than the line-log changes.

> The end result of this combined effort is the following: git log -L commands
> feel much more responsive to a terminal user because Szeder's changes make
> the computation incremental, and they have better end-to-end performance
> because of the integration with Bloom filters to reduce time spent running
> tree diffs for TREESAME commits.