avoiding scans of whole directory tree

[Mohit Aron]

Hello,

commands like 'hg status' scan the full workspace to detect what's changed.
There's an interesting svn thread where people have noticed such scans to be
specially slow when the workspace contains several hundred megabytes of data
(see
http://www.nabble.com/performance-enhancement-by-working-copy-svn-server-td16519349.html).
A while back, I'd posted a suggestion about supporting an 'hg edit' command
that just maintains a local record of what's about to be changed (no need to
talk to any remote repository). This would avoid complete scans. Any plans
on supporting this in a future release ?



- Mohit
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