Re: "svn diff" performance

Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> writes:

> Vladmir,
>
> You're asking the server to compare two trees, namely '/' and '/'. Do
> you have any idea how *big* those trees are? We have the /trunk tree,
> and at least 4 copies of it in /branches, and 2 more copies of it in
> /tags. And each source tree is itself pretty large, over 800 files
> and directories to compare.

Um, that sounds wrong. Why would it start comparing files in
/branches and /tags? Shouldn't they have the same node id in both
revisions, thus eliminating the need for further comparison? The same
for any subdirectory in trunk which doesn't contain modified files.

  // Marcus

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Received on Wed Jul 24 17:52:58 2002