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Re: "svn diff" and "svn log" timestamp weirdness

From: Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman_at_collab.net>
Date: 2005-08-31 20:49:13 CEST

On Aug 31, 2005, at 1:39 PM, John Peacock wrote:

> Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>
>> I suppose we could either (A) always store the svn:date property
>> rounded off to the nearest second, or (B) when loading the
>> svn:date property for comparison purposes, round it off to the
>> nearest second (this would be in our rev_hunt() binary search
>> algorithm...)
>>
>
> The best solution is to do both now; round to seconds when
> comparing, but stop storing subsecond precision. When 2.0 comes
> out, change the search code to stop rounding and perform a last
> rounding when updating the repository.
>

I agree! Can you submit a patch which does both things?

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