Rev 2405: NEWS about fixing bug #103757 in http://bzr.arbash-meinel.com/branches/bzr/0.16-dev/shortcut-common-ancestor

[John Arbash Meinel]

At http://bzr.arbash-meinel.com/branches/bzr/0.16-dev/shortcut-common-ancestor

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revno: 2405
revision-id: john at arbash-meinel.com-20070410191541-rj635kcwkp305bo7
parent: john at arbash-meinel.com-20070410183032-rw4d3kpb8f9cesfw
committer: John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com>
branch nick: shortcut-common-ancestor
timestamp: Tue 2007-04-10 14:15:41 -0500
message:
  NEWS about fixing bug #103757
modified:
  NEWS                           NEWS-20050323055033-4e00b5db738777ff
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       It may also help improve behaviour when dealing with a server running
       on a specific port (rather than dynamically assigned ports).
       (Robert Collins)
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+    * Teach ``common_ancestor`` to shortcut when the tip of one branch is
+      inside the ancestry of the other. Saves a lot of graph processing
+      (with an ancestry of 16k revisions, ``bzr merge ../already-merged``
+      changes from 2m10s to 13s).  (John Arbash Meinel, #103757)
  
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