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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"issue with diff method","articleBody":"I'm using gitpython to collect diff information between a commit and his parent.\nGenerally, the following code works fine when the number of diffs to retrieve is small:\n`diffs = c.parents[0].diff(c, create_patch=True)`\nConversely, when the number of diffs is huge (https://git.eclipse.org/c/papyrus/org.eclipse.papyrus.git/commit/?id=f5f817279baa2008450aa32b18e576c2fcda02bb), that code is not able to produce an output after 24h (at least).\nIs there another way I could use to retrieve the diff information between two commits?\n\nBelow you can find the code to replicate this behaviour:\n\n``` python\nfrom git import *\n\nREPO_PATH = \"\"C:/Users/.../org.eclipse.papyrus\"\" (you can clone it from here: https://git.eclipse.org/c/papyrus/org.eclipse.papyrus.git/)\n\nBRANCH = \"2.0.0\"\n\ndef main():\n    repo = Repo(REPO_PATH, odbt=GitCmdObjectDB)\n    reference = [r for r in repo.references if r.name == BRANCH][0]\n    for c in repo.iter_commits(rev=reference):\n        if c.hexsha == 'f5f817279baa2008450aa32b18e576c2fcda02bb':\n            diffs = c.parents[0].diff(c, create_patch=True)\n            print str(len(diffs))\n            break\n\nif __name__ == \"__main__\":\n    main()\n```\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/valeriocos","@type":"Person","name":"valeriocos"},"datePublished":"2016-08-21T17:45:18.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":4},"url":"https://github.com/501/GitPython/issues/501"}