Comment 5 for bug 287880

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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote : Re: [Bug 287880] Re: bzr status: add non-recursive option

2009/8/7 Robert Collins <email address hidden>:
> On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 11:23 +0000, Aigenta Dev wrote:
>> >doing 1000 dirs by calling bzr on each one will cripple your
>> performance
>>
>> Correctly. However, checking status for all thousands files in the subtree will impact performance very badly, when status of _only one_ directory is needed actually.
>> So, add this option. Please.
>
> Actually, doing status on all of openoffice is about 1.8 seconds. We've
> made status very efficient. Its not to say we won't eventually add a
> non-recursive option, but there are many other areas where we are overly
> slow, and status isn't currently one of them (to the best of my
> knowledge).

Even if it's the same time as doing the whole tree, it might be easier
for them to deal with the output restricted to one directory...

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