On 5/24/2010 3:51 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:
On May 21, 2010, at 8:23 AM, Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
Actually, Subversion is a bit more intelligent about it, attempting to use
modification times and sizes, before doing a byte-by-byte comparison.
Even that can be slow if there are lots of files involved. Note that some filesystems
have particularly bad performance if there are lots of files in a single directory, as
well. This is especially true of NFS. In one extreme example, I've seen a simple
"ls" take tens of minutes to produce any output in an NFS-mounted directory
with ~1,000,000 files.
But to be fair, note that ls sorts its output, so it can't output
anything until it has read everything.
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