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

David Roundy droundy at abridgegame.org
Sat Aug 6 14:10:29 PDT 2005


On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 06:35:47PM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> > 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.

Ah, I'd say that that's good news, since it means we have more potential
for improvement.  :)
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David Roundy
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