On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Kari Hoijarvi <[email protected]> wrote: > Eric Kow wrote: >> >> * A Windows project: not sure what this would entail, but darcs on Windows >> might need a bit of special attention >> o 2008-08 : proposed as a priority for darcs 2.2 * A single-file >> database pristine cache, which should be faster and more robust >> than our directory-based approach. e.g. a halfs filesystem. >> o 2008: darcs 2.0.0 has hashed pristine, which is more robust, but >> it's not single-file. do we still want this? > > For TortoiseDarcs, fast and complete querying of repository status would be > very welcome. > > Currently I run "darcs show files" and "darcs whatsnew -s > [--look-for-adds]". It works, but has annoying lag. When you add a file, it > still shows as not-in-darcs for a while. Continuous parsing of > '_darcs/patches/pending' as TortoiseDarcs 1 did it is fragile, and not the > way to go. > > I'd like to have these two commands as a single report, with more > information: timestamp, file size, type[dir/file], if the file is in > conflict. > > I'd like to get this also for a single file and for all the files in a > single directory, not recursive. > > Preferably this should be a library call, starting processes is expensive. > >> * Keeping track of which patches affect which files, to speed up query >> operations that affect only certain files (e.g. changes, diff, etc, when >> given >> a filename argument). >> o 2008-06 status: I don't think we do this yet. Still open? > > Good and fast diff between two versions of a single file would be very > welcome. It's the last feature I still miss from TortoiseCVS, > > Kari
Is that very hard? filestore has that functionality, after all. IIRC, it was basically 'darcs changes --from-match="hash foo" --to-match="hash foo" file'. -- gwern _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
