Re: svn diff doesn't verify MD5 sums (Related to issues #1774 and #1177)

On 2004-03-05 18:26-0600, kfogel@collab.net wrote:

> As I understood it, our goal in havin checksums has been primarily to
> prevent corrupt data from getting into the repository.
...
> I'm not so sure that 'status' and 'diff' are equally persuasive cases,
> though. And in the case of 'status', we'd pay a speed penalty to do
> verification, since it almost never has to scan the entire text base
> for modified files right now.
>
> In short: I'm comfortable with the status quo, but wonder what others
> think. (If we agree the status quo is okay, we should probably close
> those two issues as WONTFIX.)

I could live very easily with current 'status', but I would like to
see 'diff' to do verification because you can use it to generate
patch-files. And if those patch files are not correct, it might be
hard to detect afterwards.

BR, Jani

-- 
Jani Averbach
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