Emacs Bazaar repository

Harald Meland harald.meland at usit.uio.no
Sat Mar 15 00:49:18 GMT 2008


[Andreas Schwab]

> Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy at imag.fr> writes:
>
>> Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse.de> writes:
>>
>>> Yes, "diff" is quite important as well.  Unfortunately, bzr diff seems
>>> to have the same performance problem.
>>
>> It shouldn't be on a "normal" setup at least with a recent enough bzr.
>> Git is obviously faster, but for example, on an emacs tree, "bzr diff"
>> takes 0.3 seconds, while Git takes 0.05. So, the time taken by bzr is
>> acceptable to me.
>
> What is the fastest way to get the difference of a revision relative to
> its ancestor?

I would guess "bzr diff -r before:revid:$revision_id..revid:$revision_id"
(which ought to be equivalent to "bzr diff -c revid:$revision_id") as
that (in theory) shouldn't need to calculate any revision numbers.
-- 
Harald



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