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Re: fsfs bug in commit timestamps?

From: Greg Hudson <ghudson_at_MIT.EDU>
Date: 2006-01-13 18:59:05 CET

On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 09:27 -0600, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> "[...]if you have DATE1:DATE2, that becomes REV1:REV2. That is way
> wrong, as that revision "range" might not really be all of the
> revisions between the dates, or REV2 could even be earlier than REV1,
> or some of the selected revisions might not be in the date range.
> DATE1:DATE2 should really map to {R1, R3, R14, R7, ...}. IOW, some
> ordered list of arbitrary revisions. The client is NOT set up for that
> at all, not to mention all the server and transport bits necessary to
> provide it."

Of course, even this is too simplistic. What does "svn diff -r
{1,3,14,7,...}" mean?

I like the semantics we have, even if they only work for linearly
date-ordered revisions. I think a repository with non-date-linear
revisions has no well-defined date semantics for the Subversion command
set; the dates on such a repository become descriptive metadata but not
indexable metadata, not as a trivial artifact of our implementation but
in a deeper, inherent sense.

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