[Developers] cactus feature request: source code saves

[Erik Schnetter]

On Wednesday 25 May 2005 10:47, Steve White wrote:
> How about having it store the results of a cvs diff?
>
> Oh...you went and used darcs.

There's also a darcs diff.  That is not the problem.

The problem is that "cvs diff" is slow because it needs a network.  It 
does not work if you are working without a network.  And then there is 
the custom of moving directories in CVS by moving them on the server -- 
that leads to bad errors on the client.

> Well, this is still a better idea.  For one thing it tells you
> straightaway how the source was changed from the standard.  And it
> would be vastly smaller....

The current idea is to store one "default" tree locally, and then the 
differences between this and the next trees.  This way, the diffs are 
all local, and it works independent of CVS and svn and darcs and a 
network being present.

-erik

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