Re: [Monotone-devel] mtn status speed

[Stephen Leake]

Tony Tung <address@hidden> writes:

> On Dec 9, 2008, at 5:15 AM, Stephen Leake wrote:
>
>> Tony Tung <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> This doesn't directly address your question, but you could try Emacs
>> DVC https://gna.org/projects/dvc. Its user interface is similar to
>> PCL-CVS, and it _never_ calls mtn status on a single file :).
>
> Interesting!  I'll give that a try.  The last time I looked at that
> project, it did not support monotone yet.

It does now, thanks to Christian M. Ohler. I'm also working on it.

It has some quirks, but it is quite useable.

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-- Stephe