Re: [PATCH 0/3] Teach Git about the patience diff algorithm

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 2, 2009, 18:17 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901021914420.30769@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0901011151440.5086@localhost.localdomain>

Hi,

On Thu, 1 Jan 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Thu, 1 Jan 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > So could we have some actual real data on it?
> 
> .. and some testing. I tried to get some limited data for the kernel 
> myself, by doing
> 
> 	git log --patience -p v2.6.28.. > ~/patience
> 
> but I just got a core-dump instead.
> 
> Pinpointing it to a specific commit shows a smaller failure case:
> 
> 	git show -p --patience 05d564fe00c05bf8ff93948057ca1acb5bc68e10
> 
> which might help you debug this.

Thanks. I am on it. valgrind finds an earlier place in xdl_change_compact() which I think is rather more sensible, but at the same time a bit worrisome, too, as I did not expect any errors _that_ late in the game (I did not touch that code).

BTW the "-p" is not necessary with "show", indeed, you cannot even switch it off.

Ciao, Dscho