Diffing commits of big files is slow

[Maritza Mendez]

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Martin Pool <mbp at sourcefrog.net> wrote:

>
> I guess it could shortcut this case by streaming the file out and
> looking at just the start of it.  If the workingcopy file is obviously
> binary it in theory shouldn't need to read the repository's copy at
> all.
>
> 1- matching a user rule saying *.ogg (or this file-id or whatever) is
> binary and shouldn't be diffed;
> <https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/218128> -- commonly duped
>


This would be very useful.  I have added my voice to bug #218128

-M
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