On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 05:20:07PM -0500, Jeff King wrote: > The culprit seems to be diffcore-rename.c:476: > > mx = xmalloc(sizeof(*mx) * num_create * num_src); > > Where that ends up allocating about 450M. I think this is exactly the > sort of case that renamelimit was introduced to address. BTW, a much easier way to see the problem is with: git diff -M -l0 d19fbe8a76 It's just a _really_ old commit, and the rename detection has to work on a large number of files. -Peff - 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