hg diff and update taking forever

[Matt Mackall]

On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 10:27:24AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> I have a site running mercurial to keep a website updated, by pulling the
> latest changes from a repository. 
> 
> I made a local change, and now hg diff is taking forever to complete. I just
> pulled some changes, and hg up is doing the same. 
> 
> Basically any kind of diff operation. 
> 
> hg is working fine at diffing other repositories on the same box. 
> 
> I'm not sure where to look for this one. 

My first response would be to run strace.

If you don't have strace, you can run hg <cmd> --traceback, then
interrupting it will give a back trace that may provide some hint of
what it's doing.

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