Stefan Sperling wrote on Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 13:07:34 +0000:
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 01:55:58PM +0100, Johan Corveleyn wrote:
> > Textual merging in svn makes use of a variant of the standard diff
> > algorithm, namely diff3. Just a couple of days ago, I finally
> > succeeded in making diff3 take advantage of those performance
> > improvements (haven't committed this to the branch yet, but maybe I'll
> > get to it tonight).
> >
> > Would you be able to build an svn client from source? If so, could you
> > perhaps build a client from
> > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/branches/diff-optimizations-bytes
> > ?
>
> Hey Johan,
>
> I would be interested in doing testing and reviewing the changes
> on your branch. There might still be enough time to get them into 1.7.
>
> I don't have any suitably large XML files though.
> If you and/or Andreas could provide some that would be great.
>
How about taking periodic dumps of some large repository? I count on
propchanges to give the "small change in the middle of the file" effect.
Another option:
for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do
cat $REPOS/db/revs/*/*$i
done | tar -cf- > "`date`"
> Thanks,
> Stefan
Received on 2011-01-13 17:33:05 CET