On Friday, January 26, 2007 at 12:05:27 (+0000) Andy Parkins writes: >On Friday 2007 January 26 00:06, Bill Lear wrote: > >> git log -S --check foo >> >> and the thing went off into outer space. Now at over 2 1/2 minutes of >> CPU time on my 2 Ghz Opteron box... > >I would guess it's because you've used "-S<space>--check"; the --check will be >ignored as git-log doesn't use it, but the -S is saying "search for the empty >string" in all log messages - that's probably a long list, and so takes a >while to compile. Well, remember this was a test repo, one file, one commit, with the word "foo" in the file. Even if searching for a space, it should not take that long. I think it's an infinite loop somewhere. Bill - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html