hg log with files is very slow

[Dirkjan Ochtman]

Brian Wallis wrote:
> The mercurial eclipse plugin uses the attached style file to gather the 
> revision details about the files in a repository.
> 
> hg log --debug --style /path/to/style/log_style_with_files 
> /path/to/repo/root
> 
> In a large repository this can take a very long time to execute (6 
> minutes in a 800M repo that has 6000-8000 files in a typical workspace 
> checkout)

I *think* log filename is very much intended to be called with just a 
few files. If Eclipse wants to see all the files, it seems to me it can 
infer much the same data from just hg log --debug, at much lower cost.

(I still agree that the pathological case shouldn't be quite so 
pathological, though.)

Cheers,

Dirkjan