Re: `svn diff' progress

On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 04:57:14PM -0600, Karl Fogel wrote:
> 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.
>

You're pretty good at reading what I mean instead of what I write. :-)

> 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.)

Why not just have the diff crawler download both revisions, diff them,
and delete them? Am I missing something?

WRT Greg Stein's suggestions about showing the individual changes:
nice feature, but I think we need cumulative diffs as well.

--ben

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