On 2022-01-21 11:15:04 +0000, Julian Foad wrote: > Premature Hydrating > > The present implementation "hydrates" (fetches missing pristines) every > file within the whole subtree the operation targets. This is done by > every major client operation calling svn_client__textbase_sync() before > and afterwards. > > That is pessimistic: the operation may not actually touch all these > files if limited in any way such as by > > - depth filtering > - other filtering (changelist, properties-only, ...) > - terminating early (e.g. output piped to 'head') > > That introduces all the fetching overhead for the given subtree as a > latency before the operation shows its results, which for something > small at the root of the tree such as "svn diff --depth=empty > --properties-only ./" may make a significant usability impact.
Do you mean that "svn diff" at the root will fetch everything even if no files are modified? -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
