[darcs-devel] patches accepted 2006-09-11

[Edwin Thomson]

Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:

 >> There's this one, for adding an option to diff for making it apply
 >> patches to a slurpy instead of the filesystem.
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 > What are the tradeoffs?  Which should be the default?


Advantages: Much faster for patches near the top of a repo, a bit faster 
for patches further down.

Disadvantages: Uses more memory (about 50% more for examining a patch 
about halfway down the darcs repo). Also, when I was checking the above, 
it turns out there's a bug in it somewhere (looking at the intial import 
patch (and probably others) gives "Error moving ./Autoconf.lhs.in to 
./Autoconf.lhs" when --store-in-memory is used) which I'll look into 
when I'm not so busy.  So for now, don't apply it.

Edwin