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Re: [RFC] Stop sleeping for timestamps when running tests

From: Greg Hudson <ghudson_at_MIT.EDU>
Date: 2007-03-13 05:56:37 CET

On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 12:32 +0000, Mattias Engdegård wrote:
> Can't the client determine that the size has been changed and deduce
> that it does not need to sleep?

No; the sleep is there to be able to detect a modification (typically by
a non-svn command) which happens after the svn operation completes. svn
cannot know whether that future operation will change the file size or
not.

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