Fast way to get changed files since label?

Right now I'm in the unenviable position of having to make many small
patches for a beta of a product we're working on.  What we do is we label
each release, then when I need to make a patch I do a diff on the files in
the repository vs. the last label.  This gives a nice listing of all the
files that have changed, making my patch-making much easier.

The problem is the speed.  It takes several hours to do this, I guess due to
the number and size of our files that it needs to download (over the
internet!).  I'm wondering if there is a faster way to use labels to see
what has changed/what is new?  I don't care about the actual difference _in_
the files, I just want to know which files.  It looks like vault is going
overboard and actually downloading both version of the file and doing a full
diff, when it could simply be doing a checksum check on each file to tell me
if they are different.

Hmm well you know I guess I could do the diff vs. the files on my HD, maybe
eliminating half the download?  That could double the speed I guess but it
would still take quite a while.  This set of files is around the 2 gigabyte
range.

Really it takes so long and I have to make so many patches I may have to
download a seperate program to do the actual directory diff, and just keep a
version of the last build around on my HD so I can compare it to the latest
version.  But I'm hoping I can just use vault to do this task.  :)

- Jason Zisk
- nFusion Interactive LLC