On 5/8/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> wrote:
It shouldn't. The existing packfile is designed to make "git log" very efficient, by making it cheap to look only at the commit message and ancestry information. The objects are sorted first by type in the pack with the existing code already, and commits come first. Try this.
Thanks for the explanation! My ignorance in the pre-coffee stage of Monday is... exemplary. I should know better than assume that there are trivial optimizations for git that I can come up with ;-) I guess I should get more into the pack stuff and educate myself -- everyone's having fun with it... grumble, will have to brush up my C to get to play. cheers, martin - : 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