From: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:52:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] diff --check: use colour
Message-ID: <17850.1928.124641.990272@lisa.zopyra.com>
In-Reply-To: <200701261205.28504.andyparkins@gmail.com>

On Friday, January 26, 2007 at 12:05:27 (+0000) Andy Parkins writes:
>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