Re: Kernel SCM saga..

Rajesh Venkatasubramanian
2005-04-08T22:39:31Z

Linus wrote:
>> It looks like an operation like "show me the history of mm/memory.c" will
>> be pretty expensive using git.
>
> Yes. Per-file history is expensive in git, because if the way it is
> indexed. Things are indexed by tree and by changeset, and there are no
> per-file indexes.

Although directory changes are tracked using change-sets, there
seems to be no easy way to answer "give me the diff corresponding to
the commit (change-set) object <sha1>". That will be really helpful to
review the changes.

Rajesh