Re: name-rev --stdin is slow

[Lea Wiemann <lewiemann@gmail.com>]

Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> Actually, I think it's the reverse: without --stdin, name-rev can do a 
> first pass that lets it eliminate a lot of data from consideration; with 
> --stdin, it doesn't know if an item it hasn't seen is going to need some 
> data, and so it's conservative and doesn't eliminate anything,

Are you sure that's the case?  time git-name-rev --stdin < /dev/null 
gives the same high startup time without looking up anything.

Anyways, it would be great if someone could try to fix that, since a 
6-second startup time on a repository like linux-2.6 makes the --stdin 
option unusable for applications like gitweb (for which it would 
actually be quite useful to reduce the number of forks).

-- Lea