GNU bug report logs - #2117
vc-dir slowdown on subversion due to vc-stay-local

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>

Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:50:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 2117 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Nick Roberts <nickrob <at> snap.net.nz>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>, 2117 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#2117: vc-dir slowdown on subversion due to vc-stay-local
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:46:29 +1300

 > Using vc-dir on a big tree under subversion (like GCC for example) is
 > slow and does not seem to be asynchronous, emacs is unresponsive for a
 > long time.
 > 
 > The problems was introduced in revision 1.98 of vc-svn.el and is due to
 > this:  (let ((remote (not (vc-stay-local-p dir))))
 > 
 > (vc-stay-local-p DIR)  ends up calling (vc-svn-registered DIR) and that
 > executes and parses "svn status -v DIR" which for a big tree like gcc is
 > 60K lines...

Why does vc-svn-registered need to execute "svn status -v DIR".  Can it not
just parse the text-base directory instead?

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Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob
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