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  • Committer: Canonical.com Patch Queue Manager
  • Date: 2009-03-17 07:05:37 UTC
  • mfrom: (4152.1.2 branch.stacked.streams)
  • Revision ID: pqm@pqm.ubuntu.com-20090317070537-zaud24vjs2szna87
(robertc) Add client-side streaming from stacked branches (over
        bzr:// protocols) when the sort order is compatible with doing
        that. (Robert Collins, Andrew Bennetts)

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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.