"hg diff" performance issues on an open-source project

[Matt Mackall]

On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 02:40 +0200, Benoit Boissinot wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 2:35 AM, Andrew Lentvorski <bsder at allcaps.org> wrote:
> > I received the following note from one of the open-source projects I am
> > associated with that has been using Mercurial for the last 12 months:
> 
> There has been some improvements recently, he could try tip's version
> and see if it has indeed improved.

Also, you might want to investigate the inotify extension, which will
make the most expensive part of diff (finding the changed files) nearly
instantaneous.

But beyond that, we'll need more details about your project before we
can help you much more. What OS? Filesystem? How many files? How long
does status take? How big is your .hgignore file?

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