[darcs-users] Re: darcs diff

[Dmitriy Morozov]

Doesn't this seem like something that should be optimized (as a common 
use case)?

Dmitriy

On Friday 18 February 2005 04:29 am, Tomasz Zielonka wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 11:29:07AM +0200, Jani Monoses wrote:
> > Dmitriy Morozov wrote:
> > >Out of personal curiosity: why does "darcs diff filename" take
> > > so much longer than "diff filename _darcs/current/filename"?
> > > diff outputs the result immediately, darcs diff often spins the
> > > harddrive for quite a few seconds (more than 10?). I'm trying
> > > to understand what is it that darcs needs to do in addition to
> > > just running diff?
> >
> > darcs diff diffs the whole tree, then only presents the relevant
> > info from it.
>
> Also, I am not sure it has a special case for the situation, when
> you diff between current(pristine?) and working versions.
>
> Best regards,
> Tomasz