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Re: Speeding up blame

From: Peter N. Lundblad <lundblad_at_linux.nu>
Date: 2004-04-25 15:26:05 CEST

On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, Greg Hudson wrote:

> On Sat, 2004-04-24 at 17:06, Peter N. Lundblad wrote:
> > Please note that I am relatively new to the svn codebase, so my
> > terminology above may look a bit strange. However, I'd like to know if I
> > am on the right track and if this is a good way to improve the speed of
> > the blame command. I think this task shouldn't be too hard for a beginner
> > like me:-)
>
> This plan looks sane to me. You may find that performance doesn't
> improve by as much as you'd hoped for, because blame will still be
> incurring a round-trip delay for each revision. Breaking that barrier

I'll try it and do local and remote experments. I use modem, so I think
I'll notice the difference:-)

> would require a specialized RA function to retrieve all the revs of a
> file within a certain revision range.
>
Could that be done in the for 1.1 and still maintaining the compatibility
guarantees people have been talking about so much?:-) I'll need to read up
on this in HACKING I believe:-)

The best would maybe be to do the whole blame on the server, but that
might be too speciallized as an API.

Thanks for the reply,
//Peter

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