Re: Fast access git-rev-list output: some OS knowledge required

["Marco Costalba" <mcostalba@gmail.com>]

On 12/6/06, Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The time it takes to read, without processing, the whole Linux tree
> > with this approach it's almost _double_ of the time it takes 'git
> > rev-list' to write to a file:
> >
> > 3) Other suggestions?  ;-)
>
> The revision listing machinery is fairly well isolated behind some
> pretty clean APIs in Git.  Why not link qgit against libgit.a and
> just do the revision listing in process?
>

Where can I found some documentation (yes I know RTFS, but...) or,
better, an example of using the API to read git-rev-list output?

if it is possible I also would like to avoid to mess with internal git
API's, of course *if it is possible*  ;-)

Thanks