Re: Why is --graph --max-count=n so much slower than --graph HEAD~n..?

Mitchel Humpherys [off-list ref] writes:

I've noticed that --max-count doesn't seem to speed up `git log --graph'
computation time.

AFAIK, --graph wants to compute the whole history and the max-count
only affects the output phase after --graph does its computation.

Besides, "log --max-count=n" and "log HEAD~n.." compute completely
different things, so the comparison is apples and oranges.