Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Overall, I like this better than the "log --follow" hack; as the >> revision traversal is done without any pathspec when being "careful >> and slow" (aka -M), you do not suffer from the "just use a singleton >> pathspec globally regardless of what other history paths are being >> traversed" limitation of "log --follow". >> >> The patch series certainly is interesting. > > Having said that, I notice that "careful and slow" is just "too slow > to be usable" even on a small tree like ours. Try running > > $ git log -M -L:get_name:builtin/describe.c > > and see how long you have to wait until you hit the first line of > output. I'll dig some more. It *should* be essentially the following times taken together: $ time git log --raw -M --topo-order >/dev/null real 0m5.448s user 0m4.599s sys 0m0.794s $ time git log -L:get_name:builtin/describe.c >/dev/null real 0m0.832s user 0m0.796s sys 0m0.032s $ time git log -L:get_name:builtin-describe.c 81b50f3ce40^ >/dev/null real 0m0.489s user 0m0.465s sys 0m0.022s So I'm losing a factor of about 4 somewhere, which I can't explain right now. It could be improved further if --follow was fixed, because then the first step should be much faster than diffing *all* the trees. -- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch -- 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