From: Nicolas Dufour <nicolas.dufour@nemoworld.info>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: git log implementation details
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 20:14:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50A6E4F5.1050402@nemoworld.info> (raw)
Hello,
I was wondering how the command "git log" is actually retrieving the
commit log for a given file behind the scene.
Is it by walking down the object tree and scanning each commit/tree
object? Or any cache/index used here?
Thank you,
Nicolas
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