Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)

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On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

> Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> > Where we really get hit is the large number of possible tags.  The
> > master branch is turning up 14 tags, some dating back to v1.4.1-rc1.
> > I do try to abort the revision list as soon as one of those tags
> > cannot give me a better selection than the one I have currently,
> > but I still had to generate a revision list to reach that point.
> > 
> 
> It could be worth skipping tags more than 6 months older than current
> branch-head. That would, at least for the git case, cut the number of tags
> down by a considerable amount.

This is bound to be wrong in some cases if a project is very active with 
many tags, or if there was a long period of inactivity. And what would 
be the benefit?  Saving 250ms on git-describe output latency?


Nicolas
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