Speeding up slower Git operations

[Shawn Webb]

On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 07:21:41PM -0400, Ed Maste wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 at 16:57, Shawn Webb <shawn.webb at hardenedbsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 12:46:41PM -0400, Ed Maste wrote:
> > >
> > > This idea is implemented in review D20462,
> > > https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20462
> > >
> > > Here's an example from a test machine of mine:
> > > # uname -a
> > > FreeBSD test 13.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT
> > > 322839cffdb-c260903(wipbsd.20190326) GENERIC  amd64
> >
> > Is there any real use for the monotonically increasing version number
> > in git? For example, can I go from c27 to git commit hash?
> 
> Not really / easily; there's no built-in tooling to find the has that
> corresponds to c260903, although it should be possible to write a
> script to do so.
> 
> Really my goal in D20462 is just providing a monotonically increasing
> number that can serve as a proxy for "is my checkout before/after a
> specific change?"

Yup. I hope I didn't infer "is this even useful?" but rather
brainstorm "how can we make use of it?"

Thanks,

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