On 5/24/2010 3:51 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:
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> 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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Les Mikesell
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JLM>> unless you use the raw option
