Re: New ref generates 8MB mail message

[Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 
>>Based on the idea that a new branch is probably a branch off master, and
>>if it isn't, then at least sending a log vs master is better than a log
>>vs the beginning of time, I propose this patch:
> 
> 
> Actually, since the update hook _should_ be called before the ref has 
> actually been updated, it's probably much better to instead of this:
> 
> 
>>-	git-rev-list --pretty "$3"
>>+	git-rev-list --pretty "$3" ^master
> 
> 
> do something like this:
> 
> 	git-rev-list --pretty "$3" $(git-rev-parse --not --all)
> 
> which basically says: show any commits that are in the new ref, but are 
> not in _any_ other ref.
> 
> Untested, of course.
> 

Tested. It works fine and is, surprisingly, insanely fast.

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