Re: svn diff very slow with 1.0 server and 1.1 client

On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 08:56:58AM -0600, C. Michael Pilato wrote:

> Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net> writes:
>
> > What I don't understand however is why the call to get_log() seems
> > to want *all* the logs between 'youngest' (a calculated revision)
> > and '1', instead of just getting the logs for the youngest revision:
> >
> > 622 /* Let the RA layer drive our log information handler, which will do
> > 623 the work of finding the actual locations for our resource.
> > 624 Notice that we always run on the youngest rev of the 3 inputs. */
> > 625 SVN_ERR (ra_lib->get_log (ra_session, targets, youngest, 1,
> > 626 TRUE, FALSE, log_receiver, &lrb, pool));
> >
> > Could someone familiar with this code or the inner workings of svn
> > comment on this ?
>
> We need all the logs between the youngest of the three input revisions
> and 1 so we can determine where the path existed in the other two
> revisions. Just fetching the log for the youngest won't tell us
> anything about the location of the path in the other two revisions.

But how does a 1.0 client resolv the situation then ? Because a
svn diff using a 1.0 client gets the diff in 5 seconds (compared to
the 10 minutes for the 1.1 client)...

Stelian.

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Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
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