From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:31:33 GMT
Subject: Re: Intensive rename detection
Message-ID: <20081104043133.GB31276@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0811032021210.3419@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>

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