From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 06:01:49 GMT
Subject: Re: git-revert is a memory hog
Message-ID: <20080128060149.GB13521@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20080127173808.GX24004@spearce.org>

On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 12:38:08PM -0500, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> >   git-show d19fbe8a7 | patch -p1 -R
> 
> Its more like:
> 
> 	git-diff-tree -M d19fbe8a7^ d19fbe8a7 | git-apply -R --index
> 
> In other words its doing rename detection.  Its possible that the
> rename detector fired for added/removed paths and it took some
> significant amount of memory to figure out what was renamed.

It's doubtful. There are only two files in that diff, and neither is a
candidate for rename detection.

-Peff