On 2007-05-16 13:07:14 +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote: > I did a quick test of 'stg series' with the DAG patches applied, on > a Linux kernel repository ('du -sh .git' is 285M) with 42 patches > (only 25 applied). It constantly takes over 2 seconds to complete > (compared to < 200ms without the DAG patches). The problem is that > this delay will happen for bash completion as well. This is more than ten times as expensive as in my measurement. Curious. And the algorithm is designed so that it shouldn't take time proportional to the repository size, just proportional to the number of patches. There are three git calls involved: * List the references. There can't be more than a few hundred of them. * rev-list all patches, subtracting everything that's reachable from the branch head. This set of commits should not be much larger than the number of unapplied patches. * rev-list the branch head, but stop walking as soon as all applied patches have been seen. This set of commits should not be much larger than the number of applied patches. None of the calls should be expensive. -- Karl Hasselström, kha@xxxxxxxxxxx www.treskal.com/kalle - 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