On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 01:55:58PM +0100, Johan Corveleyn wrote: >> Textual merging in svn makes use of a variant of the standard diff >> algorithm, namely diff3. Just a couple of days ago, I finally >> succeeded in making diff3 take advantage of those performance >> improvements (haven't committed this to the branch yet, but maybe I'll >> get to it tonight). >> >> Would you be able to build an svn client from source? If so, could you >> perhaps build a client from >> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/branches/diff-optimizations-bytes >> ? > > Hey Johan, > > I would be interested in doing testing and reviewing the changes > on your branch. There might still be enough time to get them into 1.7.
Thanks, that would be great (btw, danielsh also expressed an interest in reviewing the branch). I will try to give an status update on the dev-list after I've committed the changes for diff3. > I don't have any suitably large XML files though. > If you and/or Andreas could provide some that would be great. I was thinking of writing a python script (as philip already suggested) that can generate several variants of large files with semi-random data. I have some prototype code for this lying around, so if I find the time, I'll try to wrap this up and send it to the dev list. OTOH, real-world examples are probably even better. Cheers, -- Johan
