Re: svn diff very slow with 1.0 server and 1.1 client

On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 09:46:59AM -0600, C. Michael Pilato wrote:

> Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net> writes:
>
> > > We need all the logs between the youngest of the three input revisions
> > > and 1 so we can determine where the path existed in the other two
> > > revisions. Just fetching the log for the youngest won't tell us
> > > anything about the location of the path in the other two revisions.
> >
> > But how does a 1.0 client resolv the situation then ? Because a
> > svn diff using a 1.0 client gets the diff in 5 seconds (compared to
> > the 10 minutes for the 1.1 client)...
>
> The 1.0 client never did this "try to find where the path was in the
> various revisions" thing. We considered that a bug, and fixed it in
> 1.1. If you see references to "diff follows renames" in CHANGES or
> elsewhere, this is what is being talked about.

Understood.

My only option to get done my 'svn diff' in 5 seconds instead of
10 minutes is to upgrade the server to 1.1. :(

Stelian.

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Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
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