Re: git-revert is a memory hog

On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:49:44AM +1100, Linus Torvalds wrote:

But  the

        if (rename_limit <= 0 || rename_limit > 32767)
                rename_limit = 32767;

which is there purely to avoid overflow in 32-bit multiplication should 

Ah, right, that first conditional handles the overflow. Then what is the
second one doing? If they are both larger than the rename limit, then
won't there square by definition be larger than the square of the rename
limit? I.e., can't we just get rid of the second conditional?

Or, better yet (which was what I was hoping for originally), we'd just 
make the inexact rename detection be linear-size/time rather than O(m*n). 
But those patches never really came together, so we do need to limit it 
more aggressively.

I had trouble getting the memory usage to a reasonable level. The hash
tables were just getting enormous.

-Peff