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Revision 9de0834663f28bee9e6b2c4647ed6128241ed26f authored by Linus Torvalds on 17 October 2006, 02:58:54 UTC, committed by Junio C Hamano on 17 October 2006, 04:27:44 UTC 
Fix hash function in xdiff library
 
Jim Mayering noticed that xdiff library took insanely long time
when comparing files with many identical lines.

This was because the hash function used in the library is broken
on 64-bit architectures and caused too many collisions.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/28962/focus=28994

Acked-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmaliserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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Tip revision: 9de0834663f28bee9e6b2c4647ed6128241ed26f authored by Linus Torvalds on 17 October 2006, 02:58:54 UTC
Fix hash function in xdiff library
Tip revision: 9de0834
generate-cmdlist.sh 
#!/bin/sh

echo "/* Automatically generated by $0 */
struct cmdname_help
{
    char name[16];
    char help[64];
};

struct cmdname_help common_cmds[] = {"

sort <<\EOF |
add
apply
bisect
branch
checkout
cherry-pick
clone
commit
diff
fetch
grep
init-db
log
merge
mv
prune
pull
push
rebase
reset
revert
rm
show
show-branch
status
tag
verify-tag
EOF
while read cmd
do
     sed -n '
     /NAME/,/git-'"$cmd"'/H
     ${
            x
            s/.*git-'"$cmd"' - \(.*\)/  {"'"$cmd"'", "\1"},/
	    p
     }' "Documentation/git-$cmd.txt"
done
echo "};"
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