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Re: Intensive rename detection

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Nov 4, 2008, 04:31 UTC
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<20081104043133.GB31276@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 08:22:34PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> How many renames do you have? Modern versions of git will do any number of 
> exact renames, but the (rather expensive) inexact rename detection has a 
> default limit of something fairly small.

I was about to say "git should have complained about turning off the requested rename detection", but I forgot that we silenced that warning except for merges.

Maybe it makes sense for "status" or a single "diff" (but definitely not "log", where it isn't even clear which diff caused it!). I dunno. I find it clutter for anything except a merge, but if that is in fact what is happening here, it might have produced one slightly less confused user.

-Peff
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