[Monotone-devel] mtn status speed

[Tony Tung]

Hi,

I'm using monotone with vc-mtn.el in emacs, which calls mtn status  
<file> rather frequently.  Generally this is fine, but I have a few  
workspaces with thousands of files, and it seems to be quite slow in  
those situations.  I suspect it is calculating the status for all the  
files in the workspace, and *then* filtering out just the files in the  
command line.

For instance, running on the macports ports directory:

[fourier]:~/software/macports/ports> time mtn status lang/python30/ 
Portfile
Current branch: org.merly.macports.ports
Changes against parent e04c08e71d9a69f911e480e6a046afe4218208b3
  no changes
1.858s usr, 0.068s kern, 0:02.05s real, 0k shrd, 0k usr
[fourier]:~/software/macports/ports> time mtn status
Current branch: org.merly.macports.ports
Changes against parent e04c08e71d9a69f911e480e6a046afe4218208b3
  no changes
2.082s usr, 0.393s kern, 0:02.50s real, 0k shrd, 0k usr
[fourier]:~/software/macports/ports>

Is there a way to only get the status of a single file quickly?

Thanks!
Tony