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Message4081

Author droundy
Recipients beschmi, droundy, kowey, markstos, tommy, wdobler
Date 2008-03-28.20:38:05
Issue Issue711 whatsnew -ls is very slow (note the --look-for-adds)
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On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 07:59:09PM -0000, Wolfgang Dobler wrote:
> Also, I think that reviewers are likely to use some largish tree as
> a data point.

At this point, I care very little what reviewers say.  It'd be nice to not
get more users.

> > with a very easy workaround: don't use --look-for-adds.
> 
> So you are saying that adding the files wouldn't be that incredibly
> slow and I should just get rid of my habit of running `darcs w -ls'
> before adding + recording? I'll try this -- knowing such a thing
> would already be very helpful.
>   Is it worth putting this in the manual? I could cook up a
> documentation patch at least. Or should this be in the Wiki somewhere
> once Darcs2 is out?

You never said you wanted to add the files to your repository.  That would
be another question.  I couldn't say how darcs will behave with this many
files in the repository.  Certainly adding them will be painful.
-- 
David Roundy
Department of Physics
Oregon State University
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