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Completely bogs on large codebase

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
git, python

Research direction

Reproduce the hang on a large codebase using the command's -d option, then check how it behaves during a long run and when interrupted with ^C. Done means the operation no longer becomes unusably slow or uninterruptible, and its progress behavior is addressed as requested.

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Description

It looks like it is ignoring my BASE, but I suspect it is looking at all the surrounding blame hunks. According to -d it is looking at a LOT of commits. It bogs the whole thing down. Your demo in the video is snappy. This hangs. And hangs. Some notion of progress or something would help.

Also, it can't be killed with ^c... I have to suspend and kill -9 %1?

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Python
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