[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Avoiding ancestor scan during get with revision library

[Miles Bader]

Aaron Bentley <address@hidden> writes:
> > If you're looking at the raw patch-log files instead of using tla
> > commands, you'd probably need to change your code to deal with the
> > situation.
> 
> No, I'm using cat-log.  As long as its behaviour is the same, that's
> fine.  But it will be quite slow if it has to untar the file for each
> separate log body.

I'd just extend cat-log to support multiple names on the command line
(hey after call it's called _cat_-log) -- then a single call to `tar
xzf' for each matching aggregate should be enough.

-Miles
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