Re: No way to force checkin?...

Peter Yamamoto wrote:
> use case: svn (1.3) apparently does not recognize some infected .exe
> files as different from the original.
> Hence, even if you have a clean version of the .exe, you cannot check it
> in!?
>
> is there any easy workaround? (I guess a rename operation? will that
> send content as well?).

Subversion is very smart and has detected that the files are infected.
That's why it won't allow you to commit the files. It protects itself
from getting infected stuff into its repository.

Ok, now the real reason:
Usually, when a file gets infected, the last-modified time is reset the
previous value by the virus so you won't detect the infection right
away. But Subversion only considers files as modified if the
last-modified time of a file differs from the one it has stored in the
BASE. If that time is different, then Subversion checks some more to
make sure the file is really modified. But if those times are identical,
it won't even check and just assume that the file was not modified.

(and no, I won't even ask why you would want to commit an exe in the
first place, and I don't wanna even know why you want to commit an
*infected* file)

Stefan

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