[darcs-devel] Optimizing "darcs diff"

[David Roundy]

On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 02:08:23PM +0100, Tommy Pettersson wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 07:36:21AM -0500, David Roundy wrote:
> > :(  I'm afraid that --ask-deps isn't well-tested.  I'm guessing that it may
> > have just been trying to sort out the dependencies between *all* the
> > patches in darcs' history, but I'm afraid I've almost never used that
> > feature.  It seemed really cool at the time, and there are still neat ideas
> > as to how it could actually be used, but I've not really heard of anyone
> > actually using it...
> 
> I use --ask-dep a lot, so much I have it on by default.
> Well, actually it is because I don't realize I want to add
> depends until I see what patches i chose in the record dialog,
> and by that time it's too late to give the option.

Okay, that's good to hear.  I worry about bitrot in features that I don't
use, and moreso about the possibility that they're cluttering up the
interface (and the code itself) for no good reason.

> When I too have a repo with 2500 patches, I will certainly
> have to try and make this faster, if not sooner.

That's even better! :)
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David Roundy
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