On Tue, May 20 2014 at 03:50:43 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Mitchel Humpherys <mitch.special@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> I've noticed that --max-count doesn't seem to speed up `git log --graph' >> computation time. > > AFAIK, --graph wants to compute the whole history and the max-count > only affects the output phase after --graph does its computation. > > Besides, "log --max-count=n" and "log HEAD~n.." compute completely > different things, so the comparison is apples and oranges. Yes, apples and oranges in a black box :). I provided the HEAD~n.. measurements just to show that we can get (almost) the exact same output another way and it's much faster. It just "seems like" --max-count=n should speed things up as n decreases... -- Mitch -- 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