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Re: Progress report on git-blame
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Progress report on git-blame |
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Sat, 25 Jan 2014 10:14:24 +0100 |
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David Engster <address@hidden> writes:
> David Kastrup writes:
>> For blaming src/xdisp.c, however, it only drops the execution time from
>> 3:00 minutes to about half.
>
> "only"? That is pretty impressive in my book.
It's not a quantum leap, just a change from bad to bad. So it will be
only moderately useful for pulling a "Hello GitHub, Microsoft,
plasticscm, beanstalk, [see the endorsement banner on
<URL:http://libgit2.github.com/>], if you want to use this code under a
license different from the core GPLv2 used in Git, like, say, in
libgit2's permissive licensing for binaries, fork over a cool 10k€"
number. As my sole income is from working on free software, some extra
cash would have come in handy.
That was my basic self-justification for stalling on my work on GNU
LilyPond for several weeks. Now I still need to finish the copy/move
detection parts of git-blame (while they are rarely used, the internals
they relied on are gone and their principal code has a #if 0/#endif
around it).
So collecting on the effort will not be a breeze but more like pulling
teeth and will likely not work at all. As long as everybody will
_disable_ git-blame in web interfaces anyway, there's not much of a
_selling_ point to the code, never mind that it will be nice to have in
the canonical Git binaries under GPLv2.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: RFC - cleaning up /etc, (continued)
- Re: RFC - cleaning up /etc, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2014/01/11
- Re: RFC - cleaning up /etc, Eric S. Raymond, 2014/01/11
- Re: RFC - cleaning up /etc, David Kastrup, 2014/01/11
- Re: RFC - cleaning up /etc, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/11
- Progress report on git-blame (was: RFC - cleaning up /etc), David Kastrup, 2014/01/24
- Re: Progress report on git-blame (was: RFC - cleaning up /etc), Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/25
- Re: Progress report on git-blame, David Kastrup, 2014/01/25
- Re: Progress report on git-blame, martin rudalics, 2014/01/25
- Re: Progress report on git-blame, David Kastrup, 2014/01/25
- Re: Progress report on git-blame, David Engster, 2014/01/25
- Re: Progress report on git-blame,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: RFC - cleaning up /etc, Stefan Monnier, 2014/01/11
- Re: RFC - cleaning up /etc, Richard Stallman, 2014/01/12
- Re: RFC - cleaning up /etc, Glenn Morris, 2014/01/12