From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 23:43:44 GMT
Subject: Re: optimize gitdiff-do script
Message-ID: <20050416234344.GQ19099@pasky.ji.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20050416232810.23430.78712.sendpatchset@sam.engr.sgi.com>

Dear diary, on Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 01:28:04AM CEST, I got a letter
where Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> told me that...
> Reduce number of subcommands execv'd by a
> third, by only calling 'rm' once, at end, not each
> loop.

The idea behind that was that diffing could take a significant portion
of disk space, especially when making large kernel diffs. Perhaps we
could make this a switch, but I would personally prefer defaulting to
the less space-consuming behaviour. I personally dislike applications
which like to pop 150M of nonsense to my /tmp.

Please don't reindent the scripts. It violates the current coding style
and the patch is unreviewable.

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