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Re: `svn diff' progress

From: Mark Benedetto King <bking_at_answerfriend.com>
Date: 2001-12-18 22:07:34 CET

Philip Martin <philip@codematters.co.uk> writes:
> The alternative is that the first crawler runs over the working copy,
> and the editor builds a temporary working copy. The second crawler
> then runs over this new working copy and a second editor produces the
> required diffs. Now the first crawler/editor is very like the current
> update, and the second is very like the current diff, so I can see how
> this would work. Lots of lovely code reuse into the bargain. There is
> the overhead of constructing a complete working copy, but we need to
> store the hierarchy information somewhere and a working copy is
> probably the simplest way.
>
> In fact writing this has lead me to conclude that the second approach
> is the one to take, having previously been assuming that the first
> would be the one!

Won't this require twice the total repository size in temporary space
if you do a diff starting from the root? That seems like a lot to me.

--ben

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