Re: checksumming crap

On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 12:26, solo turn wrote:
 but the .svn can be recreated. and the wc can be fixed by merging in
 the changes if something is there, or by just recreating the
 files/folders.

Uh, no. You can't merge in the changes without a base revision. For
example:

% svn co -r 100 url foo
% cd foo
% svn cat -r 50 bar bar
% dd if=/dev/random of=.svn/entries bs=1k count=10
% svn update bar

How is Subversion supposed to know what to do here? The right answer is
to merge the differences between rev 100 and rev HEAD of bar into the
current contents (which are the contents of rev 50), but you've taken
away the knowledge that rev 100 is the starting point.

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Received on Sat Oct 14 02:17:27 2006