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  • Committer: Canonical.com Patch Queue Manager
  • Date: 2009-12-03 01:54:54 UTC
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  • Revision ID: pqm@pqm.ubuntu.com-20091203015454-c4ya8tkb3o084ae3
Documentation updates from Neil Martinsen-Burrell, Matt Nordhoff,
        and Patrick Regan

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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.