Re: Abolishing ChangeLog files

[Dmitry Gutov]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
>> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 08:41:25 -0400
>> 
>> > Because bzr log take ages to popup, I guess it is one reason you relay
>> > on changelog files.
>> 
>> Agreed.  Commit logs are much more useful in Git where they show up much
>> more quickly.
>
> Not here:
>
>   D:\gnu\bzr\emacs\trunk>timep bzr log --line -l5000 > nul
>
>   real    00h00m00.921s
>   user    00h00m00.875s
>   sys     00h00m00.062s
>
>   $ time git log --oneline -n5000 > /dev/null
>
>   real    0m0.218s
>   user    0m0.015s
>   sys     0m0.015s
>
> I hope you at least won't claim that 900 msec is "much more quickly"
> than 200 msec.  (Not that anyone should ever need to look at 5000
> revisions.)

Your conclusion here seems to be the reverse of what the command output
shows (900ms for Bazaar and 200ms for Git).

In my experience, Bzr is especially slow when showing log for a subtree
or a specific file.