[darcs-devel] Re: optimizing darcs diff to be 4000 times faster
Jani Monoses
jani at iv.ro
Thu Dec 23 05:20:59 PST 2004
> Is that necessary when I've explicitly told it that I only care about one file?
>
> It seems me that since darcs already depends on a 'diff' binary, for the
> above case, darcs could in fact just quietly run:
>
> $ diff ../_darcs/current/file.txt file.txt
>
> ...and that would seem to solve it.
Maybe it's playing it safe so that renames that happened across the dir or the file you
select don't get misinterpreted. I am not sure what the reasons are but I'd like it to be
faster myself :)
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