On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 04:12:38PM +0200, Philippe De Muyter wrote: > After reading the man page of 'git log', should --topo-order not be the > default log order ? The problem with --topo-order is that it has to traverse all of the commits before starting output. So: $ time git log | head -1 commit 64fb1d0e975e92e012802d371e417266d6531676 real 0m0.038s user 0m0.032s sys 0m0.008s $ time git log --topo-order | head -1 commit 64fb1d0e975e92e012802d371e417266d6531676 real 0m4.247s user 0m4.140s sys 0m0.108s -Peff -- 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