Re: latest blob date (request)

On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, Randy.Dunlap wrote:

I would find it helpful (a user optimization) if each tree list
contained a date-last-modified/updated.  This could be used
to help decide if I (someone) wanted to click on a particular
blob or history (OK, blobs are quick, but history can be
very time-consuming, so being able to shortcut or skip
history would be very helpful IMO).

That's fundamentally a very expensive operation in git.

A "blob" doesn't have a date - and indeed, it cannot have one, since the 
same blob may be associated with multiple different pathnames, and 
multiple different commits.

If you have a particular pathname, you can ask "when was this pathname 
changed last", which is basically

	git-rev-list --max-count=1 HEAD -- Makefile 

but that's not very cheap either.

		Linus