[Quilt-dev] [PATCH 00/39] Reimplement backup-files in bash

[Jean Delvare]

Hi all,

This is the result of my work on the bash reimplementation of
backup-files. I started from Debian's rewrite, which is the first
patch of the series. Then come a cleanup patch which removes the
remnants of C, and 3 patches fixing compatibility issues with BSD
(which were obviously not an issue for Debian, but are for us.)

Lastly there is a huge list of cleanup and performance improvement
patches. I will provide real world and accurate numbers later, but
as a quick summary, Debian's version was very slow (as in ~100
times slower than the C implementation when dealing with large file
lists), while mine is only marginally slower (as in ~2 times), to a
point where nobody will notice in practice.

Almost all patches have already been reviewed by Raphael Hertzog, but
I would welcome further reviews and comments.

Thanks,
-- 
Jean Delvare
Suse L3