On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 04:09:41PM -0800, David Daney wrote: > Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > >On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 03:00:10PM -0800, David Daney wrote: > > > >>I like this, but what if you also did an svn status to see if there were > >>any modifications WRT the branch/revision and then add either 'clean' or > >>'modified' to the information. > >> > >>So you would get (gcc-4_1-branch revision 108596 modified) or > >>(gcc-4_1-branch revision 108596 clean) > > > > > >I think we already had this discussion and decided that svn status took > >too long in many cases. > > > > Maybe have a configure option to disable svn status and return 'unknown' > if you disable the svn status part.
Did you mean something like ./contrib/gcc_update --disable-svn-status I can certainly do that. > > It is unfortunate that svn status is so slow, as I think this would be > useful information to know. > This is the test result of my first patch: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2005-12/msg00865.html H.J.
