Julian Foad wrote:
> Or - and this is what it actually does - wait for the time stamps to
> become older than "now" before exiting and returning control to a
> program that might look at the time stamps. See
> "svn_sleep_for_timestamps()".
This I actually have a half-done patch for. It handles NTFS, FAT and all
Unix filesystems I could get my hands on gracefully, but has one serious
problem: it needs a reference to a working copy in order to check the
actual timestamps on a file.
And that's not straight-forward, for two reasons:
* In some cases, where svn_sleep_for_timestamp() is called, the
reference to the relevant working copy is long gone, and carrying
around the context would be horrible.
* In other cases, we have several targets for a command which might
not all be in the same WC.
There's also a nasty edge-case (which I'm reluctant to deal with):
someone could mount part of their working copy on a filesystem with
different timestamp resolution (yes, I can do this on Windows, worse
luck...)
Any bright and useful ideas for solving these will be rewarded by a
virtual beverage of choice.
-- Brane
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Received on Tue Feb 21 10:51:24 2006