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Didn't git do exactly that in preparing those emails to be sent? I wonder how long it took for that command to run.

• db48x 5y ago
  Probably very, very quickly. git-format-patch is very fast; all it has to do is diff the files involved in each commit, which is already heavily optimized. No syntax highlighting (your email program can do that if you want it), or line numbering (ditto).
  • bonzini 5y ago
    Don't discount the heaviness of rendering the HTML on the client, too!
  • db48x 5y ago
    61.65 seconds to create all 2,298 emails on my computer, with the repository on spinning rust. That’s about one fortieth of a second each on average.