[darcs-devel] darcs patch: Do autoconf substitution on git.h (and 3 more)

Juliusz Chroboczek Juliusz.Chroboczek at pps.jussieu.fr
Sat Aug 6 09:35:47 PDT 2005


> Alas, darcs changes --summary is horribly slow, due to the cost of merging.
> Unless we come up with some other trick, we *really* will want to look into
> faster commutation tricks (e.g. sorting patches according to what files
> they modify, so a commute is cheaper than O(N*M) where N and M are the
> number of primitive patches in each of the two patches being commuted.

It's actually worse than that -- the Git merging code currently
chooses the common ancestor in a sub-optimal manner, leading to more
merging than strictly necessary.

                                        Juliusz




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