Re: On tabs and spaces

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 01/15/2015 12:57 PM, David Kastrup wrote:

> git blame does not spend that much of its time diffing.  Even if the
> difference between plain and -w has become larger with Git 2.1+ (simply
> because it wastes vastly less time with other endeavors), the bulk of
> the run time is likely spent in unpacking files from the repository
> rather than comparing them.

Would you consider this kind of difference of no consequence?

$ time git blame src/xdisp.c >/dev/null

real    0m11.875s
user    0m10.753s
sys     0m0.583s
$ time git blame -w src/xdisp.c >/dev/null

real    0m17.127s
user    0m16.779s
sys     0m0.356s

> If you use a Git version older than 2.1

2.1.0 here.

But anyway, I distinctly remember the performance of blaming being one 
of the reasons why we shouldn't do whitespace-cleaning across the 
repository.