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# NAME
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git-annex benchmark - benchmark git-annex commands
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# SYNOPSIS
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git annex benchmark [criterionopts] -- commmand [; command]
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# DESCRIPTION
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When git-annex is built with benchmarking support, this command can be used
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to benchmark any other git-annex command. For example "git annex benchmark -- get ."
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will benchmark "git annex get".
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The command being benchmarked is run in the current git-annex repository.
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It does not run just once; the benchmarking process will run it several
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times to get a statistically meaningful result.
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When benchmarking an action like "git annex get", the first run will
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often do much more than subseqent runs. To make the benchmark repeat an
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action like getting a file each time, additional command can be listed,
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separated by ';'. (Note that ';' needs to be escaped from the shell.)
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The combined script will be run repeatedly by the benchmark. An example
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of using this:
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git annex benchmark -- get . ';' drop .
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Note that git-annex benchmark does not fork new git-annex processes when
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benchmarking; it calls the command to benchmark internally, and so avoids
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git-annex's startup overhead. (So don't try to use it to optimise git-annex
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startup.)
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# OPTIONS
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Before the "--" any of the criterion library's command-line options can be
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used.
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Any options that git-annex usually accepts can be included after the
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command to benchmark.
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# OUTPUT
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The output of the commands being benchmarked goes to standard output and
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standard error as usual. It's often a good idea to sink it to /dev/null to
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avoid the display of the output skewing the benchmark results. Of course
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--quiet can also be used to avoid most git-annex output, as long as you
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don't want to benchmark the generation of that output.
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The benchmark report is output to standard output by default, although
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criterion options can be used to redirect it to a file.
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# SEE ALSO
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[[git-annex]](1)
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# AUTHOR
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Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>
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Warning: Automatically converted into a man page by mdwn2man. Edit with care.
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