Re: Kernel SCM saga..

[Rajesh Venkatasubramanian]

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
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