linux-kernel - Re: Git pull on linux-next tree shows "Performing inexact rename detection"

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Date:	Sat, 10 Mar 2012 19:46:43 +0100
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Prasanna Kumar T S M <prasannatsmkumar@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git pull on linux-next tree shows "Performing inexact rename detection"

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 19:28, Prasanna Kumar T S M
<prasannatsmkumar@...il.com> 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).

Don't use pull, follow the instructions from the FAQ:
http://linux.f-seidel.de/linux-next/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Linux-next.FAQ

I thought to remember the FAQ explicitly mentions not to use pull, but
that doesn't seem to be the case.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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