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From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: Dan Zwell <dzwell@zwell.net>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git-gui is slow to display a large number of changed/new files
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:47:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <81b0412b0906300747id528b76ue48d0bf1ba3709fe@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A492FFA.5030703@zwell.net>

2009/6/29 Dan Zwell <dzwell@zwell.net>:
> Is this behavior worth changing? I doubt the scenario I encountered is a
> common one.

It happens. There are imported repositories, and things like CVS/SVN/Perforce
force people to do giant commits. So yes, it definitely is worth looking into.

> ... However, I have written a patch to display at most 5000
> changed/new files, warning the user that the list has been truncated. If
> this is a worthy change, I can submit the patch--I can also change it so
> that the maximum number of displayed files is taken from git's
> configuration.

Even 5000 is insane, so that would be a good start, for sure.

Paul Mackerras is gitk's maintainer, remember to put him on Cc:

      reply	other threads:[~2009-06-30 14:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-29 21:19 git-gui is slow to display a large number of changed/new files Dan Zwell
2009-06-30 14:47 ` Alex Riesen [this message]

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