In the course of messing around with this issue, I discovered something interesting. There were a number of .svn (Subversion) directories in my repository because the git repository was created from directories checked out of subversion. Also, a number of those .svn directories contained binary files such as .jpg, .gif, etc. So that content was essentially doubled in the repository.
I deleted the .git repository and rebuilt it, but this time with .svn in the .gitignore file. Lo and behold the original git diff command returned in less than a second on the new repository. So even though there weren't *that* many binary files in this repository, there were enough to badly slow down the diff command. All is well now. :-) On Mar 24, 10:30 am, Dave R <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for your help on this. Maybe I'll look into using git log > instead of git diff. I've never seen git whatchanged before so I'll > check that out too. > > On Mar 24, 1:33 am, Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Actually this was a much better guide to the git date formats: > > >http://www.alexpeattie.com/blog/working-with-dates-in-git/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en.
