From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:05:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] diff --check: use colour
Message-ID: <200701261205.28504.andyparkins@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <17849.17947.645022.282882@lisa.zopyra.com>

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.

> Is it really '-S--check'?

Yep - it's "-S<string to search for>", so you'd be searching for the 
string "--check" in that example.


Andy

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Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE
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