Hi.
Is there something that can be done about improving
git log --follow -- <file> performance to be nearly
equivalent speed to git blame -- <file> ?
The overall cpu time taken for these 2 commands that
track individual file history can be quite different.
git log --follow -- <file>
and
git blame -- <file>
It seems that there can be a couple orders of magnitude
delta in the overall time taken.
For instance (using the Linus' linux kernel git):
$ time git log --follow -- drivers/firmware/google/Kconfig > /dev/null
real 0m42.329s
user 0m40.984s
sys 0m0.792s
$ time git blame -- drivers/firmware/google/Kconfig > /dev/null
real 0m0.963s
user 0m0.860s
sys 0m0.096s
This particular file has never been renamed.
Looking at the output on screen, there does seem to
be 25+ seconds of cpu time consumed after the initial
(last shown) commit that introduces this file.
Perhaps adding a whole-file rename option to the
"git log" history simplification mechanism could
help?
Thoughts?
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