On 3/27/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Sun, 26 Mar 2006, Marco Costalba wrote: > > > > FIRST WAY > > > > After annotating a file history (double click on a file name in > > bottom-right window or directly from tree view), you see the whole > > file annotated. If you have the diff window open you see also the > > corresponding patch (scrolled to selected file name). > > The problem is that this step is already _way_ too expensive. > > I don't want to work with any tool that makes "Step 1" take a minute or > two for a project that has a few years of history. Try it on the linux > historic project with some file that gets lots of modifications. > Historic Linux test (63428 revisions) File: drivers/net/tg3.c Revisions that modify tg3.c : 292 With qgit 15s to retrieve file history (git-rev-list) 19.5s to annotate (git-diff-tree -p, current GNU algorithm, not new faster one) and... $ time git-whatchanged HEAD drivers/net/tg3.c > /dev/null 98.01user 2.44system 1:46.19elapsed 94%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (797major+43033minor)pagefaults 0swaps NOTE: It seems that git-whatchanged asks for checked the out file to work. It didn't work with no repository checked out. Marco - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html