From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Can I have this, pretty please?
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 12:24:48 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708121219540.30176@woody.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85abswo9gf.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, David Kastrup wrote:
>
> > But to visualize a history, it's useless.
>
> Not half as useless as existing git-specific tools. They thrash my
> computer to death on serious sized trees.
So, use "git log --pretty=oneline" instead, which doesn't have the
expense.
I don't see why you think that using nntp would help anything. The
_problem_ is still the same one, of calculating full reachability. It
didn't go away just because you changed to another intermediate protocol.
Yes, you could perhaps use the nntp caching, but I don't know if you've
noticed: the reason news servers tend to expire old messages is that a
news reader and the NNTP protocol won't be able to handle huge histories
either.
And if you just want the "expire" feature, then you might as well just
make git date-limit things for you, ie "gitk --since=last.week"
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-12 19:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-12 13:23 Can I have this, pretty please? David Kastrup
2007-08-12 14:21 ` Steven Grimm
2007-08-12 16:40 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-12 18:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-12 18:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-12 19:28 ` Jon Smirl
2007-08-12 19:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-12 19:48 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-12 19:29 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-12 19:51 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2007-08-12 20:04 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-12 20:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-12 19:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-12 20:10 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-13 0:22 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-08-13 5:49 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-12 19:10 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-12 19:24 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2007-08-12 19:46 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-12 19:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-12 20:30 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-12 20:58 ` Govind Salinas
2007-08-12 21:35 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-12 22:17 ` Martin Langhoff
2007-08-12 22:54 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-12 20:02 ` Jeff King
2007-08-12 20:09 ` Jeff King
2007-08-12 21:51 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-12 23:10 ` Jeff King
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