On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > This is an absolutely huge deal for anything like "git log -- <pathname>", > > but also for some things that we don't do yet - like the "find where > > things changed" logic I've described elsewhere, where we want to find the > > previous revision that changed a file. > >... > > Btw, don't even bother testing this with the git archive. git itself is so > > small that parsing the whole revision history for it takes about a second > > even with path limiting. > > By the way, I forgot to praise you ;-). > > Even on a fast machine, the old one was not very useful, but > this one is _instantaneous_. Very good job. Indeed. It's why I'd really like this to be merged before 1.3.0 - it moves a certain class of problems from "it works" to "it's actually usable". Now, the _real_ usage I foresee (which just wasn't practical before) is the interactive annotation thing - this won't help a _full_file_ annotate (which usually needs to go back to the very first version of a file anyway), but it should make it possible to play with an incremental one (the "graphical git-whatchanged" kind). But even just the "git log" difference makes it worth it. Linus - : 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