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  • Committer: Daniel Watkins
  • Date: 2009-02-08 10:55:05 UTC
  • mto: (3985.1.1 ianc-integration)
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 3986.
  • Revision ID: daniel@daniel-watkins.co.uk-20090208105505-kqtrznj2f34jcrt9
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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.