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git log implementation details

Subject: git log implementation details

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Nicolas Dufour· Nov 17, 2012, 01:14 UTC · lore

Hello,

I was wondering how the command "git log" is actually retrieving the commit log for a given file behind the scene. Is it by walking down the object tree and scanning each commit/tree object? Or any cache/index used here?

Thank you,

Nicolas

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