On 1/31/06, Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@red-bean.com> wrote:
> On 1/31/06, Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net> wrote:
>
> > It just seems like we should be going out of our way to make sure our
> > users have trouble entering commands that seem simple at first glance
> > but actually take a huge amount of time to complete.
> >
>
> I feel your pain. It makes me wonder if ... don't kill me for saying
> this... if the results of a history-trace couldn't be cached in the
> working copy somehow. It means the first time you run your diff
> command (or other command that does history-tracing), it will be slow.
> But if you ever run the same command (or similar command) on the same
> path or URL again, the history data would be pulled out of the wc
> cache instead. It would be safe to cache, because history is
> immutable, after all.
FWIW, at least half the time, maybe more, when I do this sort of thing
it's from outside a working copy.
-garrett
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Received on Wed Feb 1 03:56:52 2006