Re: inconsistent timestamps/headers in tarballs and repository

Stefan Hett <luke1410_at_gmx.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> during the verification process of the tarballs I spotted that some files
> have a different HeadURL and/or different timestamp records in the files
> when comparing the archives with the content from the tagged revisions.
>
> Is that expected?
>
> For instance win-tests.py in 1.8.16:
>
> zip file:
>
> # $HeadURL:
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/branches/1.8.x/win-tests.py $
>
> tag:
>
> # $HeadURL:
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/tags/1.8.16/win-tests.py $

The procedure is described in the Community Guide.
(https://subversion.apache.org/docs/community-guide/releasing.html#rolling-release)

Tarballs are rolled from the branch, the RM tests and signs them, and then
creates a tag. Existing tarballs follow this pattern as well. Hence, the
differences you mentioned are expected.

Regards,
Evgeny Kotkov
Received on 2016-04-26 13:09:08 CEST