From: Rares Aioanei <krnl.list@gmail.com>
To: Prasanna Kumar T S M <prasannatsmkumar@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git pull on linux-next tree shows "Performing inexact rename detection"
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 13:08:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F5B364A.5000209@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F5A4BE7.60308@gmail.com>
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).
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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.
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Rares Aioanei
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-10 11:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-09 18:28 Prasanna Kumar T S M
2012-03-10 11:08 ` Rares Aioanei [this message]
2012-03-10 16:21 ` Prasanna Kumar T S M
2012-03-10 18:46 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
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