On 13 Mar 2006 17:07:05 +0100, Albert Reiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ["Jason Dagit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mon, 13 Mar 2006 07:46:45 -0800]: > > problem. Do you have any large files in the directory? Even ones > > which are not under the controll of darcs can be a problem for some > > operations such as whatsnew. > > But hopefully only when you use something like --look-for-adds, I > suppose. Or is there some other reason why `whatsnew` would look at > files not under darcs control?
By default whatsnew is in summary mode so one might think it doesn't need to read the whole file. But unfortunately this is not the case. http://bugs.darcs.net/issue79 I sent in a workaround for this, but as far as I know it was rejected. I can't really tell when patches are accepted. The more fundamental problem here is that we have been relying on the laziness of haskell to make it efficient to read files and whatnot but IMO this won't cut it anymore and we're going to have to design this explicitly into darcs. Thanks, Jason _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.abridgegame.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
