From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Mitchel Humpherys <mitch.special@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, jonas@bernoul.li
Subject: Re: Why is --graph --max-count=n so much slower than --graph HEAD~n..?
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 15:50:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq61l0rrng.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vnkwd2f8ayea.fsf@mitchelh-linux.qualcomm.com> (Mitchel Humpherys's message of "Tue, 20 May 2014 15:17:01 -0700")
Mitchel Humpherys <mitch.special@gmail.com> writes:
> I've noticed that --max-count doesn't seem to speed up `git log --graph'
> computation time.
AFAIK, --graph wants to compute the whole history and the max-count
only affects the output phase after --graph does its computation.
Besides, "log --max-count=n" and "log HEAD~n.." compute completely
different things, so the comparison is apples and oranges.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-20 22:50 UTC|newest]
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2014-05-20 22:17 Why is --graph --max-count=n so much slower than --graph HEAD~n..? Mitchel Humpherys
2014-05-20 22:50 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-05-21 0:13 ` Mitchel Humpherys
2014-05-21 0:24 ` Junio C Hamano
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