[darcs-users] Re: darcs diff
Steven E. Harris
seh at panix.com
Fri Feb 18 18:05:07 UTC 2005
Jani Monoses <jani at iv.ro> writes:
> darcs diff diffs the whole tree, then only presents the relevant
> info from it.
Even when only a single file is specified as an argument to diff?
Wow, that's a lot of spurious IO.
I just tested "darcs diff" against the darcs source repository. I
added a single space to WhatsNew.lhs. Running
darcs diff -u WhatsNew.lhs
takes about three seconds and grinds the hard disk. Is there supposed
to be a more economical command to ask, "What have I done to my
working copy of a particular file?" Well, I do observe that
darcs whatsnew WhatsNew.lhs
only takes about a quarter second.
--
Steven E. Harris
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