Re: git-revert is a memory hog

On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 12:38:08PM -0500, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

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  git-show d19fbe8a7 | patch -p1 -R

Its more like:

	git-diff-tree -M d19fbe8a7^ d19fbe8a7 | git-apply -R --index

In other words its doing rename detection.  Its possible that the
rename detector fired for added/removed paths and it took some
significant amount of memory to figure out what was renamed.

It's doubtful. There are only two files in that diff, and neither is a
candidate for rename detection.

-Peff