Mark J. Nelson wrote: > >>>> It's still impressive that we can burn alsost 12 seconds of CPU time >>>> to find one character difference in my workspace :-( > > Really? How long does it take "wx init" to check your entire workspace > and find that same change? > > Presumably your development habits aren't changing dramatically, and you > know either exactly which files you've modified, or can come close (within > a level or two in the source tree, and identify the directories.) > > "hg status" accepts file and directory arguments, and using them will > dramatically reduce the search time. (For example, much of my work prior > to tools putback involved "hg status usr/src/tools" to get everything I > had touched.) > > Mostly, the only time you should be incurring full-workspace searches are > for an "hg commit" which follows an "hg merge," because then a partial > commit is not allowed.
I think (I haven't properly test) that having an .hgignore file helps in workspaces that have been built in. My .hgignore file is usually just this: closed/* archives/* packages/* proto/* webrev/* log/* *.o This stops things like 'hg status' wandering down into the proto areas. The reason I have closed in there is because this is a completely open repo without the usr/closed source code. It also means that it ignores (a lot but not all) built object code. -- Darren J Moffat
