[darcs-devel] Re: [darcs-users] GNU Emacs frontend: which one ?

Ian Lynagh igloo at earth.li
Sat Jul 2 06:16:36 PDT 2005


On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 12:21:01AM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> > What scenario is causing problems with the current way of doing things?
> 
> Whenever you open a file foo using vc-darcs, it will do
> 
>     darcs whatsnew foo
> 
> This turns out to be too slow in practice on very large repos.

Do you mean "very large files"?

Using hashes will only help if the contents of foo and
_darcs/current/foo are identical but the mtimes are different, right?
What I meant was, how is that happening?

Or is this without having a pristine again?


Thanks
Ian





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