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Re: [WIP PATCH] Make svn_diff_diff skip identical prefix and suffix to make diff and blame faster

From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:47:39 +0200

Johan Corveleyn wrote on Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 23:37:23 +0200:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
> >> Index: subversion/include/svn_diff.h
> >> ===================================================================
> >> --- subversion/include/svn_diff.h     (revision 1001548)
> >> +++ subversion/include/svn_diff.h     (working copy)
> >> @@ -112,6 +112,11 @@
> > (personally I prefer 'svn diff -x-p' to show the function name here)
>
> Ok, will do next time.
>

Thanks.

> I've had some progress:
> - The blame_tests.py now all pass (tests 2 and 7 provoked a core
> dump). That makes all tests pass. However, although I fixed the
> coredump, I don't fully understand the root cause (why they ended up
> in the situation where they ended up). So I'm going to study that
> first a bit more.
> - I have now included support for files with \r eol-style.
>
> I'll send a new version of the patch shortly.
>

Sounds good.

> I'm also thinking that I could try to take advantage of -x-b/-x-w or
> -x--ignore-eol-style options to make it even faster (right now the
> prefix/suffix scanning will stop at the first difference, regardless
> if it's a whitespace or eol difference that could/should be ignored).
>
...
>
> Thoughts?

None, actually; I'm not (yet) sufficiently familiar with diff internals.
But let's please have this work in small, digestible (read: reviewable)
pieces --- support for -x--foo is exactly the sort of additional
optimization that can be done in a separate patch (on top of this
starting patch).
Received on 2010-09-29 00:49:05 CEST

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