On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Davide Libenzi wrote: > > > > xdiff allows for diffing ranges, and the most efficent method is exactly > > how you did ;) > > No, the performance problem is how it needs to re-hash everything. xdiff > doesn't seem to have any way to use a "subset of the hash", so what the > patience diff does is to use a subset of the mmfile, and then that will > force all the rehashing to take place, which is kind of sad. > > It would be nice (for patience diff) if it could partition the _hashes_ > instead of partitioning the _data_. That way it wouldn't need to rehash. > See? Yeah, saw that afterwards ;) - Davide -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
