Re: Subversion 1.9: svn cp --pin-externals may produce dummy logentries

Bert Huijben wrote:
> I don't think this is really a noop change. Most likely svnadmin dump will
> show that it recorded a change on the fs layer.
>
> The replay API (such as used by svnsync and svnrdump) probably won't show a
> change.

Erm... but that's basically what 'no-op change' means, to me: when a
'change' is noted at the FS layer (and seen in a dump) but the 'after'
content is the same as the 'before' content, and no change is reported
by 'replay' and similar higher level APIs.

The 'content' concerned could in principle be file text, properties,
directory entries, or any combination. In practice usually we see an
issue either with file text or with properties.

- Julian
Received on 2015-04-23 19:07:02 CEST