From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 04:19:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFH] xdiff shows trivially redundant diff.
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604022116060.3781@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604022022390.10401@alien.or.mcafeemobile.com>



On Sun, 2 Apr 2006, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> 
> Tomorrow I'll take a look at it.

Thanks. I've made the first "release" (2.6.17-rc1) with the new built-in 
diff, let's see if somebody has any issues.

But just the fact that I could do an almost 24MB diff (6MB compressed) 
with 738 _thousand_ lines in about 4 seconds is damn nice. The script I 
use to cut releases (logs, diffstats, tar-files etc) used to take a long 
time with BK, these days it's a couple of seconds.

		Linus