On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > We had this particular performance "anomaly" be discussed just the other > week. People seem to be so used to the "file ID" mentality that has its > roots in RCS etc, that they expect "git log <filename>" to somehow be > faster than "git log". In git, that's simply not true. History is *always* > seen as a "full repository history". There simply isn't anything else. Side note: some people have talked about changing this by generating some kind of per-filename cache to make logging ops have an "accelerated" mode for the trivial cases. So maybe git at some future date will have a special-case for a single filename, but that's definitely not the case today. 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