From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2020 13:47:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bloom: ignore renames when computing changed paths
Message-ID: <20200409134724.GA3494212@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <72fa2e30-b841-9600-ae2c-21a269817f1c@gmail.com>

On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 07:56:43AM -0400, Derrick Stolee wrote:

> > So we really aren't detecting renames in the first place! And indeed,
> > checking diffopt.detect_rename shows that it is unset. So I'm curious if
> > there is a case where that would not be true. I _think_ it would only be
> > true in a program which ran init_diff_ui_defaults(), but never in
> > git-commit-graph.
> 
> So our issue was really that the partial clone prefetch logic was just
> overly aggressive.

Right, but I'm not sure how this patch could ever have helped, since
it's just setting a variable to the value it _should_ have already had.

Or do you just mean that the issue would have gone away with Jonathan's
patch to make the prefetching less aggressive?

-Peff