On Monday 28 November 2005 13:58, Giovanni Bajo wrote:
> > That's why my patch only stores for files _with svn:text-time set_. All
> > others are treated as before.
>
> Thus, are you proposing this property not to be added by default (unless
> one modifies its own Subversion configuration file)? What if I want mtime
> stored only for imported trees? Will the flag work also for directories?
You can use auto-props to set the property depending on filename, eg. *.doc.
You can give svn a parameter to use an alternate configuration file, eg. to
have mtime stored with every file on import.
In the owner-group-mode branch this is also done for directories.
> I know there is a long-time bug with CVS and DST, but I don't remember the
> details. Google brought up this link:
> http://www.devguy.com/fp/cfgmgmt/cvs/#DST. I suggest the problem to be
> investigated in detail so to find out if it can be avoided in SVN.
I don't think that would confuse svn.
> There
> are also other issues with the rouding of mtime on different filesystems
> (e.g. when you store a file into a FAT-16 disk and you read the mtime back,
> it can be modified by rounding). This can cause trouble too; eg. SVN might
> think that the user modified the mtime of the file while it was just
> rounded by the filesystem.
Yes, but that's inevitable. Therefore svn does a file data comparision before
saying that a file is modified.
> Anyway the issue is moot if this feature is opt-in rather than opt-out by
> default. Personally, I would turn it manually on only on import.
My patch only provides mechanism, not policy :-)
Regards,
Phil
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Received on Mon Nov 28 14:24:53 2005