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  • Committer: Robert Collins
  • Date: 2007-10-23 22:14:32 UTC
  • mto: (2592.6.3 repository)
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 2967.
  • Revision ID: robertc@robertcollins.net-20071023221432-j8zndh1oiegql3cu
* Commit updates the state of the working tree via a delta rather than
  supplying entirely new basis trees. For commit of a single specified file
  this reduces the wall clock time for commit by roughly a 30%.
  (Robert Collins, Martin Pool)

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that only certain files should be compared.
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Performance can be further improved by caching comparisons to avoid repeating
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them.  Caching could potentially be performed by ``diff`` and perhaps by
 
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them.  Caching could potentially be performed by ``diff`` and perhaps by 
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``merge``.  Merge is aware of the relationship of a text merge's result to
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the THIS value, and the THIS value is generally the basis value.  So the
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comparison is latent, but present.  The only issue is extracting it.