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Re: [PATCH] diff --check: use colour

From
Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Date
Jan 26, 2007, 13:52 UTC
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<17850.1928.124641.990272@lisa.zopyra.com>
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<200701261205.28504.andyparkins@gmail.com>
On Friday, January 26, 2007 at 12:05:27 (+0000) Andy Parkins writes:
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>On Friday 2007 January 26 00:06, Bill Lear wrote:
>
>> git log -S --check foo
>>
>> and the thing went off into outer space.  Now at over 2 1/2 minutes of
>> CPU time on my 2 Ghz Opteron box...
>
>I would guess it's because you've used "-S<space>--check"; the --check will be 
>ignored as git-log doesn't use it, but the -S is saying "search for the empty 
>string" in all log messages - that's probably a long list, and so takes a 
>while to compile.

Well, remember this was a test repo, one file, one commit, with the word "foo" in the file. Even if searching for a space, it should not take that long. I think it's an infinite loop somewhere.

Bill
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Message 11 of 26 in “diff --check: use colour”
  1. diff --check: use colourJohannes Schindelin, Jan 24, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoJan 24, 2007
  3. Johannes SchindelinJan 25, 2007
  4. Junio C HamanoJan 25, 2007
  5. Bill LearJan 25, 2007
  6. Johannes SchindelinJan 25, 2007
  7. Bill LearJan 26, 2007
  8. Jeff KingJan 26, 2007
  9. Andreas EricssonJan 26, 2007
  10. Andy ParkinsJan 26, 2007
  11. Bill LearJan 26, 2007
  12. Bill LearJan 26, 2007
  13. J. Bruce FieldsJan 26, 2007
  14. Bill LearJan 26, 2007
  15. Bill LearJan 26, 2007
  16. Jeff KingJan 26, 2007
  17. Jakub NarebskiJan 26, 2007
  18. Andy ParkinsJan 26, 2007
  19. Jakub NarebskiJan 26, 2007
  20. Junio C HamanoJan 26, 2007
  21. Johannes SchindelinJan 26, 2007
  22. Junio C HamanoFeb 18, 2007
  23. Johannes SchindelinFeb 18, 2007
  24. Junio C HamanoFeb 18, 2007
  25. Johannes SchindelinFeb 18, 2007
  26. diff --check: use colourJohannes Schindelin, Feb 18, 2007

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