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Re: Bug with revisions?

From: Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman_at_collab.net>
Date: 2004-07-15 20:34:31 CEST

On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 13:16, Kasia Trapszo wrote:
> I ran into this problem today and it looks to be a nasty bug..
>
> File was changed, but the timestamp on the file is the same as the
> previous revision. Running svn diff shows no difference and cannot
> commit the file to the repository (as subversion thinks it hasn't been
> edited). Do a normal diff on the file (not svn) and there's a
> difference.. Do a 'touch' to change the date and now svn sees the
> difference.
>
> This should be easy to reproduce.

This isn't a bug, it's a deliberate SVN design. SVN algorithm uses the
same algorithm as CVS to decide if a file has changed:

if (timestamp unchanged)
  return FILE_UNCHANGED;
else if (filesize changed)
  return FILE_CHANGED;
else
  return do_brute_force_byte_for_byte_comparison();

If the timetstamp-trick weren't the first line of defense, then it would
take *hours* to run 'svn status', or run 'svn commit'.

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