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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Henry Qin <root@hq6.me>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why is git log on large repos slower when outputting to tty?
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:22:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20241018042246.GA2408674@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAO8bsPASzxoEwiYd7ABf4YZuyTexFnf2B2DXap6xsA6d98DAAw@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 10:46:17AM -0700, Henry Qin wrote:

> Details in my Stackoverflow question:
> 
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79099095/why-is-git-log-significantly-slower-when-outputting-to-a-tty

My first thought was "decorations", and indeed somebody gave that answer
in the stack overflow thread. The default for log.decorate is "auto",
which will turn them on when output is to a tty. You can set it to
"false" to disable it.

As for why decorations are slow: it is necessarily going to be at least
linear in the number of refs, since we have to build the reverse mapping
up front. Do you have a lot of refs? What does "git for-each-ref | wc
-l" say?

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2024-10-18  4:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-17 17:46 Why is git log on large repos slower when outputting to tty? Henry Qin
2024-10-18  4:22 ` Jeff King [this message]
2024-10-18  4:28   ` Henry Qin

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