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  • Committer: Martin Pool
  • Date: 2011-07-04 21:15:24 UTC
  • mto: (6034.1.1 filter-tree)
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 6035.
  • Revision ID: mbp@canonical.com-20110704211524-ilb7l6g4i3iizke7
Test exporting filtered tree to a zip (already works)

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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.