Concerning Re: Poor performance in windows. Sw
Ryan Schmidt wrote on 12 Feb 2007, 16:31, at least in part:
>
> On Feb 12, 2007, at 15:31, Jan Hendrik wrote:
>
> > OH, BTW there is a bug in SVN: if a file is modified without
> > changing timestamp and/or filesize, SVN will not commit the file,
> > and I think if the file is updated local changes are lost.
>
> This behavior does exist in Subversion, but I do not believe it is
> considered a bug. Rather, I believe it is considered a user error to
> modify a file but not update its timestamp.
Well, is it really to be considered a user error? There are more
than one apps out there that deliberately or by user's choice do not
touch the timestamp on search&replace operations for one or other
reason.
The case I came over this behaviour was different though: wanting
to upload the correction of a bad typo (filesize did not change)
immediately from a working copy normally not used for uploading I
had the FTP sync app setting local timestamps to server
timestamps so that files different would be marked and not
everything else would be uploaded jst because of the difference of
the timestamp, too - and voila: the typo corrections were not
committed and I had to redo the typo thing on another WC. The
user error in this case was not doing the upload through the usual
WC, but not the unchanged timestamp.
Besides, if the timestamp is reset to an older date than in the base
copy SVN will commit even with filesize unchanged though this
would even more indicate a user error.
(The live server is hosted outside and no working copy, but
synchronized through FTP, with local timestamps set to server
timestamps after upload; no SVN on the server, repos neither
accessible from outside.)
JH
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Received on Tue Feb 13 10:25:44 2007