On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Edwin Vane<[email protected]> wrote: >> I don't understand this one, meld generally parses the vc status command >> output to detect file states. > > As Vincent just mentioned, meld seems to recursively go through the > entire directory tree looking for changes. I'm guessing it's just > calling the source control's 'status' command in each directory. > However, with large directory structures this can take a long time. I > sometimes have a non-versioned subtree within the directory structure > (created as part of the build) and searching these things is really > unnecessary. In my experience with svn and mercurial, just calling the > 'st' command in the root directory automatically shows all changes in > subdirectories. In theory, meld can just use this list instead of > recursively traversing the directory structure looking for changes.
I think some VC plugins do it this way, but not all of them -- Vincent Legoll _______________________________________________ meld-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/meld-list
