New submission from Simon Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

On a repository with a lot of patches, asking for darcs changes on a particular
file or directory can take a *long* time (30+ seconds of CPU time is common in
the GHC repository).

This is preventing us from using the darcs browser in Trac, because it
automatically runs darcs changes in this way.  Even the darcsweb browser isn't
really usable with GHC.

If I could wish for only one thing in darcs, faster 'darcs changes <file>' would
be it.  I imagine that in order to do this you have to store the files changed
along with each patch in the inventory, but once you have this a lot of other
operations could be sped up too (darcs annotate would be my #2 wish).  Also,
wouldn't this let you do 'darcs changes <file>' on a partial repository, as long
as you don't also say -v?

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messages: 456
nosy: droundy, simonmar, tommy
priority: wishlist
status: unread
title: performance of darcs changes <file>

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