Re: Source control: Scanning for changes

[Vincent Legoll <vincent legoll gmail com>]

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Edwin Vane<revane gmail com> wrote:
>> I don't understand this one, meld generally parses the vc status command
>> output to detect file states.
>
> As Vincent just mentioned, meld seems to recursively go through the
> entire directory tree looking for changes. I'm guessing it's just
> calling the source control's 'status' command in each directory.
> However, with large directory structures this can take a long time. I
> sometimes have a non-versioned subtree within the directory structure
> (created as part of the build) and searching these things is really
> unnecessary. In my experience with svn and mercurial, just calling the
> 'st' command in the root directory automatically shows all changes in
> subdirectories. In theory, meld can just use this list instead of
> recursively traversing the directory structure looking for changes.

I think some VC plugins do it this way, but not all of them

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Vincent Legoll