benno@xxxxxxxxxx writes: > From: Benno Evers <benno@xxxxxxxxxx> > >> How much, if any, does this change hurt the performance by forcing >> the code to dig further if there aren't multiple roots? If there is >> such an unnecessary overhead that degrades performance for the more >> common case, can we improve it further to avoid it? > > If there aren't multiple roots, then this should be visiting exactly > the same number of commits as before. This is because in this case, if > we're down to a single branch, the current commit must be an ancestor > of *all* tag candidates so the stopping condition is always true. Sounds good. Can some of that analysis go in the proposed log message text, so that other people do not have to ask the same question later? Thanks.
