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Re: gitk / diffcore-rename error message

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
May 30, 2008, 23:10 UTC
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<20080530231041.GA11813@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 05:54:42PM +0200, Alf Clement wrote:
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> Now I get the following error while using gitk:
> warning: too many files, skipping inexact rename detection
> warning: too many files, skipping inexact rename detection
>     while executing
> "close $bdf"
>     (procedure "getblobdiffline" line
> ...
> 
> which seems to come out of diffcore-rename.c
> 
> Can I ignore it? Is it harmful?

It isn't harmful. You had a big commit, and git decided it wasn't worth trying to do rename detection on such a big change (because it would likely take too much CPU time).

The upcoming version of git suppresses this message since it confuses gitk. So you can try upgrading to the most recent 'master' to fix it. In the meantime, you can either ignore it (though I think it may interfere with gitk showing the correct diff), or you can try setting the rename limit higher (try "git config diff.renamelimit 400").

-Peff
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  1. Alf ClementMay 30, 2008
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