Re: [Monotone-devel] automate log?

[Thomas Keller]

Stephen Leake schrieb:
> I'm thinking of adding a new 'automate log' command.
>
> It would have options for specifying what data to include in the
> output, and output everything in basic_io.
>
> The rationale for this is that the current Emacs DVC implementation of
> "show log for this file" is incredibly slow.
>
> Emacs DVC uses the existing automate functions to retrieve all the
> information it needs for "show log for this file". That ends up being
> a _lot_ of automate calls, and it scales with the size of the
> database, since essentially every revision  must be examined to see if
> it changes the file. Even using automate stdio, it is far too slow to
> be useful.

I've implemented that as well and used automate get_content_changed and 
automate get_corresponding_path so I only had to examine those revisions 
where the file was actually changed (content marks). This is actually 
quite fast and can works incrementally just like mtn log does.

Thomas.

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