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

Another idea:

If I understand the issue correctly, we end with a timestamp X given by the
user, and find in the repository the timestamps W and Y, where W <= X <=Y and
W < Y, and have to choose between W and Y.

Why not take the nearest? Ie.
        if (X-W < Y-X)
          use W;
        else
          use Y;

That would allow choosing revisions within 1 second, too:

        W=sometime.112432
        Y=sometime.862131

        X=sometime.4 (with 00000 omitted)

Here W would be taken.

And for the case that both differences are equal (unlikly, as microseconds are
stored), we could throw a warning - "given timestamp is equally likely to W
and Y, take one".

How's that?

Regards,

Phil

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