From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: git diff too slow for a file Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:40:37 -0700 Message-ID: <7vd3xuinbe.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <4BB00573.6040005@gmail.com> <4BC9D928.50909@lsrfire.ath.cx> <7vpr1y2eev.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <4BCB48E5.9090303@lsrfire.ath.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: SungHyun Nam , git@vger.kernel.org To: =?utf-8?Q?Ren=C3=A9?= Scharfe X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Apr 20 09:40:54 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O484j-0004Zp-Jf for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:40:53 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753834Ab0DTHks convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:40:48 -0400 Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:42937 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753827Ab0DTHkr convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:40:47 -0400 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72C0BA42EC; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:40:45 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=sasl; bh=rVZ5Sfg8g9ha29ii3Ach+wPLN uQ=; b=c4SuCH4TlT8OIhhO8SQkS/1Z6bE4voJLxy6QLutrsEDFFzpOfOwf2NEMP NT0qukLAEx2ttY1glEfwU9UUExywC319TB+iDLRVFJ1V7GUsiA5d9vjToPmPyZ/M KPHU2yZqJX1nW3oWCFFlMQi0r9FydX7nRhG8nxxrq5bdW2Ok8Q= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=sasl; b=qfQXm5EJSTG9ZoJWmVU kOu7/k9I87q36421XE2mlzthG+yZSQv2ElKM7W1Wi8xRPZr3/q28ud4QJUbtcTk8 WM9cQ9xzXpkgl5Mt0tKEu3p7qs6NTu7M4DeF6oQ34Ur+Ma3L5hM7kOA6k5q4clPd XRLMF6/4p/bC2SD/v+h8VIqg= Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E46DA42E6; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:40:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 90D18A42DA; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:40:38 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 05C43420-4C50-11DF-9E4D-D033EE7EF46B-77302942!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Ren=C3=A9 Scharfe writes: > For Linux, these 161 out of 178107 commits are affected: > > 90d49b4f 83f3c715 3b5dd52a e97bd974 4e092d11 96b3c83d 4c96e89= 3 > ... > 22e2c507 e9edcee0 303b86d9 47b5d69c 2d7edb92 cb624029 f4f051e= b > > I have briefly looked at a few of them. They were big and not obviou= s > with or without XDF_NEED_MINIMAL, but the flag clearly helped to cut > them down a bit. Thanks. I am getting the same impression after staring some output. Probably we should at least try to get rid of the use of MINIMAL immediately after 1.7.1 and if nobody finds large discrepancies, aim to ship 1.7.2 (and possibly 1.7.1.1) without even --quick/--slow options. I expect that there will also be some differences in the blame output.