Re: git annotate runs out of memory

["Daniel Berlin" <dberlin@dberlin.org>]

On 12/11/07, Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 11, 2007 6:33 PM, Daniel Berlin <dberlin@dberlin.org> wrote:
> >
> > Annotate is treasured by gcc developers (this was a key sticking point
> > in svn conversion).
> > Having an annotate that is 2x slower and takes 15x memory would not
> > fly (regardless of how good the results are).
> >
>
> Speed of annotation is mainly due to getting the file history more
> then calculating the actual annotation.
>

Yes, i figured as much.

> I don't know *how* file history is stored in the others scm, perhaps
> is easier to retrieve, i.e. without a full walk across the
> revisions...

It is stored in an easier format. However, can you not simply provide
side-indexes to do the annotation?

I guess that own't work in git because you can change history (in
other scm's, history is readonly so you could know the results for
committed revisions will never change).

> I would be interested in cold start and warm cache start (close the
> annotation tab and start annotation again).

I will try to do this.