Jeff King wrote: >On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 05:54:27PM +0200, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote: >> True. But repopulating this cache after cloning means that you have to >> calculate the patch-id of *every* commit in the repository. It sounds >> like something to avoid, but maybe I'm overly concerned, I have only a >> vague idea on how computationally intensive this is. >For a rough estimate, try: > time git log -p | git patch-id >/dev/null On my system that results in 2ms per commit on average. Not huge, but not small either, I guess. Running it results in real waiting time, it all depends on how patient the user is. -- Sincerely, Stephen R. van den Berg. "Father's Day: Nine months before Mother's Day." -- 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