[darcs-devel] Diff takes a lot of time?

Flavio Botelho fezsentido at gmail.com
Thu Jun 9 11:35:00 PDT 2005


Hello there, it's me again.
Looking around i have seen people complaining about how long diff
takes. It seems that diff here means an entire repository diff.

Bitkeeper has a similar tool which takes a long time too depending on
how you set you repository.
Basically the ideal way to use bk (and not having to wait so much for
the 'diff') was to only flag directories/files which you were going to
edit. Meaning that there was a recursive flag that would point which
points of the tree were editted. (bk tied that to the FS read-only
status)

For those who wanted, the repository could be set as all editable, but
that would make them loose quite some time when checking in changes
thru the nice looking tool (which used something like what seems to be
your diff).

That's quite easy to implement imho.

But i haven't used darcs yet, so excuse me if i am talking about
something already fixed/mixing things up.

Thanks,
Flavio Botelho




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