Julian Foad wrote:
> C. Michael Pilato wrote:
>
>> Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
>>
>>> Seriously, I'm just trying to keep the door open for the future.
>>> Branko's "path look up table" thread is what got me thinking about it,
>>> but (as I mentioned in that thread) I don't see any immediate big
>>> performance wins coming from speeding up single-path directory
>>> lookups.
>>
>>
>> Actually, it should improve the diff-ability of dumpfiles (and working
>> copy admin areas, for debuggability purposes), at the very least.
>> +1 on predictable behavior. :-)
>
>
> Fantastic! Methinks now is the time to chip in with my patch to make
> Subversion's user-visible operations proceed in sorted order. In
> particular, I want "svn status" output to be sorted (without piping it
> through a "sort" filter, because that removes streaminess) so that I
> can read it and find things in it (by eye) more easily, and "svn diff"
> output to be sorted so I can meaningfully compare one patch file with
> another similar one. A separate thread will blink into existence.
Well, the easiest way to make the repository-side operations sorted is
by sorting the directories in the repo, and the easiest way to do that
is by putting them into a path-l^H^H^H^H^H^H er, sorted index... :-)
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Brane Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu> http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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Received on Tue Jun 1 04:40:05 2004