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  • Committer: John Arbash Meinel
  • Date: 2009-04-21 23:54:16 UTC
  • mto: (4300.1.7 groupcompress_info)
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 4301.
  • Revision ID: john@arbash-meinel.com-20090421235416-f0cz6ilf5cufbugi
Fix bug #364900, properly remove the 64kB that was just encoded in the copy.
Also, stop supporting None as a copy length in 'encode_copy_instruction'.
It was only used by the test suite, and it is good to pull that sort of thing out of
production code. (Besides, setting the copy to 64kB has the same effect.)

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that only certain files should be compared.
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Performance can be further improved by caching comparisons to avoid repeating
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them.  Caching could potentially be performed by ``diff`` and perhaps by
 
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them.  Caching could potentially be performed by ``diff`` and perhaps by 
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``merge``.  Merge is aware of the relationship of a text merge's result to
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the THIS value, and the THIS value is generally the basis value.  So the
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comparison is latent, but present.  The only issue is extracting it.