On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 6:05 AM, Peter Krefting <pe...@softwolves.pp.se> wrote: > Derrick Stolee: > >> Git is spending time detecting renames, which implies you probably renamed >> a folder or added and deleted a large number of files. This rename detection >> is quadratic (# adds times # deletes). > > Yes, a couple of directories with a lot of template files have been renamed > (and some removed, some added) between the current development branch and > this old maintenance branch. I get the "Performing inexact rename detection" > a lot when merging changes in the other direction. > > However, none of them applies to these particular commits, which only > touches files that are in the exact same location on both branches.
I would be very interested to hear how my rename detection performance patches work for you; this kind of usecase was the exact one it was designed to help the most. See https://public-inbox.org/git/20171110222156.23221-1-new...@gmail.com/
