Re: Excessive data transfer when getting unified diff?

Stefan Küng wrote:
> On 3/2/06, Simon Large <simon@skirridsystems.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> And I always thought the diff was done server side to minimise network
>> traffic, which is what we imply in our docs :-(
>
> For commits/updates/... yes. Only diffs are transferred.
> But to show the unified diff, that's not quite possible. Because the
> CL client allows you to specify e.g. GNU diff to do the task for you.
> And since a client doesn't know what diff tool the server has
> installed, that task must be done on the client side.

Yes, I realised that as I was driving home from work this afternoon ;-)
Thanks for the explanation.

Simon

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