[darcs-users] record reports back (1/?) for number of changes
David Roundy
droundy at darcs.net
Fri Sep 16 11:16:53 UTC 2005
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 06:35:14PM -0500, Richard A. Smith wrote:
> Lele Gaifax wrote:
>
> >Hit '?' and you'll get an explanation for 'c': 1.0.4 has become lazier
> >on that respect.
>
> Ah.. I see its a feature. I assume this was done to speed up the record
> process?
It's more directly the memory usage of the record process that is improved,
but of course that translates into speed. If you hit 'a', we diff the
files as we write the patch, which means we never need to hold the entire
parsed patch in memory. Makes a big difference if the parsed patch takes
more memory than you've got (as is the case on my computer with an "initial
record" of the linux kernel).
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David Roundy
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