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Re: [PATCH v1] add status config and command line options for rename detection

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Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
May 9, 2018, 15:59 UTC
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On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 4:42 PM, Ben Peart <Ben.Peart@microsoft.com> wrote:
> Add a new config status.renames setting to enable turning off rename detection
> during status.  This setting will default to the value of diff.renames.

Please add the reason you need this config key in the commit message. My guess (probably correct) is on super large repo (how large?), rename detection is just too slow (how long?) that it practically makes git-status unusable.

This information could be helpful when we optimize rename detection to be more efficient.

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> Add a new config status.renamelimit setting to to enable bounding the time spent
> finding out inexact renames during status.  This setting will default to the
> value of diff.renamelimit.
>
> Add status --no-renames command line option that enables overriding the config
> setting from the command line. Add --find-renames[=<n>] to enable detecting
> renames and optionaly setting the similarity index from the command line.
>
> Origional-Patch-by: Alejandro Pauly <alpauly@microsoft.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <Ben.Peart@microsoft.com>
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Duy
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  1. add status config and command line options for rename detectionBen Peart, May 9, 2018
  2. Duy NguyenMay 9, 2018
  3. Ben PeartMay 9, 2018
  4. Elijah NewrenMay 9, 2018
  5. Ben PeartMay 9, 2018
  6. add status config and command line options for rename detectionBen Peart, May 10, 2018
  7. Elijah NewrenMay 10, 2018
  8. Ben PeartMay 10, 2018
  9. Elijah NewrenMay 10, 2018
  10. Ben PeartMay 11, 2018
  11. Junio C HamanoMay 11, 2018
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  13. add status config and command line options for rename detectionBen Peart, May 11, 2018
  14. Elijah NewrenMay 11, 2018
  15. Eckhard MaaßMay 12, 2018
  16. Ben PeartMay 14, 2018
  17. add status config and command line options for rename detectionBen Peart, May 11, 2018

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