i think dan is right here:
a good version control system should let the user decide what is used
to decide if a file is "new" or "changed". options include:
- date/time
- checksum
(and this is the only case where i would actually
care that it is a cryptographically good checksum)
- contents
or a combinantion of the above.
this information can be retrieved from the server, or from the .svn
folder, which also the user wants to decide (and with this option the
issue "my working copy is too big, but my server is fast" is a
non-issue).
-s.
--- mark benedetto king <mbk@boredom.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 06:49:37AM -0400, Garrett Rooney wrote:
> >
> > On Monday, April 28, 2003, at 01:13 AM, Dan Allen wrote:
> >
> > >Argh, I am going to throw a fit if I get one more "file is out
> of
> > >date" error. Would there be any way to add a
> > >"--really-really-force" option so that you just don't get an
> error
> > >message. I am the only person committing to the repository yet
> I
> > >consistently get out of date errors, and I just don't see how.
> > >Please consider adding a user override for this. Nothing is
> more
> > >frustrating then spending more time trying to commit then
> editing
> > >the files. Hopefully you see where I am coming from here.
> >
> > you've mentioned this 'file is out of date' problem several
> times, and
> > i get the impression you think it's a bug, but i still haven't
> seen a
> > simple set of steps to reproduce it. if you can give us a
> transcript
> > of the commands you need to run to get this behavior on a clean
> > repository, i'm sure people would be happy to either point out
> why the
> > behavior is needed, or fix the bug.
>
> Exactly. Adding the option would be addressing the symptom rather
> than
> the cause.
>
> --ben
>
>
>
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