# Re: git-rev-list: add "--dense" flag

1 messages from 2005-10-23 to 2005-10-23. Participants: Marco Costalba.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/2203

## Marco Costalba, 2005-10-23 19:30

Subject: Re: git-rev-list: add "--dense" flag
Message-ID: <20051023193027.2437.qmail@web26303.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20051023193027.2437.qmail%40web26303.mail.ukl.yahoo.com

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Linus Torvalds wrote:

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>And it scales pretty well too. On the historical linux archive, which is 
>three years of history, the same thing takes me just over 12 seconds and 
>52MB, and that's for the _whole_ history. And it's not just following one 
>file: it's following that subdirectory.
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>So it really is pretty damn cool. 
>

Yes, it is. Very powerful and useful tool indeed. IMHO kudos!

>Of course, I might have a bug somewhere, but it all _seems_ to work very 
>well indeed.
>

The only bug I found is in qgit ;-) that failed to correctly handle --dense option.

It is now fixed in my GIT archive: http://digilander.libero.it/mcostalba/qgit.git


    Marco



		
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