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From: Nicolas Dufour <nicolas.dufour@nemoworld.info>
Subject: git log implementation details
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 20:14:29 -0500
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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