Re: git list files

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 09:56:02AM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> > lets, say the equivalent of the $ls -d b* within git.git root directory
> > would look like:
> >
> > ----------------
> > 98746061 jrnieder 2010-08-12 17:11 Standardize-do-.-while-0-style   base85.c
> > c43cb386 pclouds  2012-10-26 22:53 Move-estimate_bisect_steps-to-li bisect.c
> > efc7df45 pclouds  2012-10-26 22:53 Move-print_commit_list-to-libgit bisect.h
> > 837d395a barkalow 2010-01-18 13:06 Replace-parse_blob-with-an-expla blob.c
> > 837d395a barkalow 2010-01-18 13:06 Replace-parse_blob-with-an-expla blob.h
> > ebcfa444 gitster  2012-07-23 20:56 Merge-branch-jn-block-sha1       block-sha1
> 
> You might like Peff's or Jakub's tree blame script.  The newest version
> I can find is
> 
>  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/168323

As far as I recall, that script works. However, I have a pure-C
blame-tree implementation that is much faster, which may also be of
interest. I need to clean up and put a few finishing touches on it to
send it to the list, but it has been in production at GitHub for a few
months. You can find it here:

  git://github.com/peff/git jk/blame-tree

It's built on the regular diff traversal, just like the perl script you
linked, but doing it all in-process makes things fast.  I also added a
"--max-depth" parameter for diff, so you can do:

  git blame-tree --max-depth=1 -- Documentation

to recurse into the Documentation subdir, but not go into its
subdirectories. One of the things I need to clean up is that my counting
of --max-depth is different from that used by "git grep", and we would
probably want reconcile that.

-Peff