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Re: Idea for revision graph

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2006-11-22 14:56:57 CET

Peter Mounce wrote:

>> * to calculate the distance (no matter which definition), you have to
>> do an actual diff between those two. Now, imagine a revision graph of a
>> /trunk url, which also has 40 tags already. That's 40 diffs of maybe a
>> very large codebase. Considering how long it already takes now to show
>> the graph, imagine how long it would take with that.
>
> Perhaps it wouldn't show this by default, and one could trigger that
> visualisation by selecting the two branches one cared about after the
> graph opens?
>
> Or perhaps when clicking TSVN-Revision Graph, the user gets a dialog to
> ask which branches they're interested in looking at, and whether or not
> to recurse down sub-branches (ie, count those as changes)?

I'd say this is a too expensive operation to do client-side. That's a
function which is better implemented server-side, i.e. in a webviewer or
something similar.

Stefan

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