[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] remove main CHANGELOG file

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Scott Wood,

In message <4BE1CACE.6040005 at freescale.com> you wrote:
>
> Surely the extra quarter second is not too significant compared to the 
> time it takes to formulate the query and examine the results.

The requests are often generated by some script, and there may be tens
of them - enough that the 'git log' versions takes several seconds.

> > 2) it's more efficient:
> >
> > 	->  strace -f grep foobar CHANGELOG 2>&1>/dev/null | wc -l
> > 	143
> > 	->  strace -f git log --grep=foobar 2>&1>/dev/null | wc -l
> > 	2494
> 
> It also requires that a cache be maintained just for this purpose.

I can't parse that.


> You could even have a cron job keep it up to date. :-)

Agreed. There are many, many possibilities.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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