Re: `svn diff' progress

Mark Benedetto King <bking@answerfriend.com> writes:
> 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.

Twice the total size of a single repository revision tree, yes.

If we wanted to save the space, we could set up a skeletal tree with
placeholders for files, then get the data from the server at each
position in the tree? Or have diff run on a node-by-node basis on the
server side? (Ick, that centralizes the computation load at the
server, which is bad. Clients should be running diff.)

Philip, thoughts?

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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:53 2006