Re: Git mirrors

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 01:37:21 +0200
> Cc: Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> Well, if you wish to follow that route, this is the actual command you
> should use:
> 
> bzr log --show-ids -n 0
> 
> Without the `-n 0', the output only includes the leftmost part of the
> DAG.
> 
> With this command:
> 
> bzr log --show-ids -n 0 --short
> 
> the number of emitted lines is halved, but it executes about 15%
> *slower* and the format is different, not necessarily more difficult to
> parse.

Again, I think revno's are not necessary, so John needs not waste his
time and resources on this.

But as long as we are talking about "log -n0", installing the
history_db plugin significantly speeds up "bzr log" when it needs to
reference revisions merged from other branches.