On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Josh Triplett wrote: > > Or have I misunderstood the case you have concerns about? Why would the > "nice" format incur additional cost? Try it. The default "extreme" simplification is a _hell_ of a lot faster than doing the full history. [torvalds@g5 linux]$ time git-rev-list --full-history --parents HEAD -- kernel/sched.c >/dev/null real 0m4.660s user 0m4.612s sys 0m0.044s [torvalds@g5 linux]$ time git-rev-list --parents HEAD -- kernel/sched.c >/dev/null real 0m1.684s user 0m1.680s sys 0m0.004s and the "nice" thing will be much slower still: just trying to figure out whether a commit is a parent of another commit is expensive. Doing so for _each_ merge is more expensive still. I think it's O(n^3), but what do I know.. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: 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