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From: "Björn Steinbrink" <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
To: Alexander Toresson <alexander.toresson@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git diff infinite loop at attempt to diff two specific commits
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 20:12:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090705181208.GA8629@atjola.homenet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b33ba6660907051037ve9e4176s2a1edbda8af4068f@mail.gmail.com>

On 2009.07.05 19:37:44 +0200, Alexander Toresson wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've got problems with git diff, it hangs in an infinite loop when
> attempting to generate a diff between two specific commits. Commands
> to reproduce:
> 
> git clone git://eulex.zapto.org/nightfall.git
> cd nightfall
> git diff --stat 597711..61a139
> 
> (Note that the clone needs to fetch 16mb)
> 
> I'm running git 1.6.3.3.

FWIW, it "hangs" on the save.xml file. The old version is 1.2M, the new
one is 9M. Using the patience diff algorithm to compare them takes about
5 seconds here, while the default algorithm took 6m15s.

HTH
Björn

  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-05 18:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-05 17:37 git diff infinite loop at attempt to diff two specific commits Alexander Toresson
2009-07-05 18:12 ` Björn Steinbrink [this message]
2009-07-05 18:22   ` Matt Pearson
2009-07-05 20:09     ` Alexander Toresson
2009-07-05 21:21       ` Matt Pearson

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