Re: [Monotone-devel] Quick poll: Does anybody actually still use diff with --external?

[Thomas Keller]

Am 09.01.11 12:34, schrieb CooSoft Support:
> I have probably completely misunderstood but...
> 
> If I understand you correctly your multimap would store the raw output
> of the diff. Could one not store the essential arguments to the
> dump_diff() call instead of the diff output (say the two paths and file
> ids but _not_ the file content (which can easily be retrieved when
> needed))? Then iterate through your sorted multimap calling get_data(),
> lua.hook_get_encloser_pattern() and lastly dump_diff(). That way each
> node in the multimap would contain a lot less data than a diff output,
> addressing Richard's concern, and it would also mean that you wouldn't
> have to worry about capturing the output of external diff operations as
> they would be done in order and not require sorting.

Right, I could create a small temporary struct for that, I just hope I
don't go tabula rasa with the other code around. Lets see how it works
out - thanks for all your input.

Thomas.

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