From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753523Ab2CJLJE (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Mar 2012 06:09:04 -0500 Received: from mail-we0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:59296 "EHLO mail-we0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751768Ab2CJLJC (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Mar 2012 06:09:02 -0500 Message-ID: <4F5B364A.5000209@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 13:08:58 +0200 From: Rares Aioanei User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.24) Gecko/20111114 Icedove/3.1.16 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Prasanna Kumar T S M CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Git pull on linux-next tree shows "Performing inexact rename detection" References: <4F5A4BE7.60308@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4F5A4BE7.60308@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 03/09/2012 08:28 PM, Prasanna Kumar T S M wrote: > Doing "git pull" on linux-next tree always shows "Performing inexact > rename detection" for a very long time (more than a hour and going). It > also uses more than 1.5GB of RAM (out of 2GB RAM) in my system. Not able > to do any thing when this is happening - even maximising a window takes > 2 minutes once such a situation is reached. I am killing the command > with a Ctrl + C as I am not able to do any work. > > What is the reason for this? What it does internally? Is there any way > to circumvent this? I don't want to clone linux-next again (that seems > to be the worst case solution). > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > The first Google search result gave me this: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/Merging-limitations-after-directory-renames-interesting-test-repo-td6041103.html While long and pretty technical, it will shed some light, I believe. Good luck. -- -- Rares Aioanei