{"thread":{"id":"13734","subject":"gitk / diffcore-rename error message","startedAt":"2008-05-30T15:54:42Z","lastAt":"2008-05-30T23:10:42Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Alf Clement","Jeff King"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"78152","messageId":"556d90580805300854k27e0ea9ev3aabcfb28f131228@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"13734","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"gitk / diffcore-rename error message","fromName":"Alf Clement","fromEmail":"alf.clement@gmail.com","sentAt":"2008-05-30T15:54:42Z","receivedAt":"2008-05-30T15:54:42Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"alf.clement@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"Hi all,\n\nI was trying to create a git repository in the following way (while\nimporting different releases from clearcase tree)\n\ngit init .\ntar xzf version1..\ngit add .\ngit commit -a -m\"Version1\"\nrm -rf tree\ntar xzf version2\ngit add .\ngit commit -a -m\"Version2\"\n... and so on for next next verison.\n\nNow I get the following error while using gitk:\nwarning: too many files, skipping inexact rename detection\nwarning: too many files, skipping inexact rename detection\n    while executing\n\"close $bdf\"\n    (procedure \"getblobdiffline\" line\n...\n\nwhich seems to come out of diffcore-rename.c\n\nCan I ignore it? Is it harmful?\n\nThanks,\nAlf\n"},{"id":"78197","messageId":"20080530231041.GA11813@sigill.intra.peff.net","threadId":"13734","inReplyTo":"556d90580805300854k27e0ea9ev3aabcfb28f131228@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: gitk / diffcore-rename error message","fromName":"Jeff King","fromEmail":"peff@peff.net","sentAt":"2008-05-30T23:10:42Z","receivedAt":"2008-05-30T23:10:42Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"peff@peff.net","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/45925?v=4"},"body":"On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 05:54:42PM +0200, Alf Clement wrote:\n\n> Now I get the following error while using gitk:\n> warning: too many files, skipping inexact rename detection\n> warning: too many files, skipping inexact rename detection\n>     while executing\n> \"close $bdf\"\n>     (procedure \"getblobdiffline\" line\n> ...\n> \n> which seems to come out of diffcore-rename.c\n> \n> Can I ignore it? Is it harmful?\n\nIt isn't harmful. You had a big commit, and git decided it wasn't worth\ntrying to do rename detection on such a big change (because it would\nlikely take too much CPU time).\n\nThe upcoming version of git suppresses this message since it confuses\ngitk. So you can try upgrading to the most recent 'master' to fix it. In\nthe meantime, you can either ignore it (though I think it may interfere\nwith gitk showing the correct diff), or you can try setting the rename\nlimit higher (try \"git config diff.renamelimit 400\").\n\n-Peff\n"}]}