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Re: Poor performance in windows. Switching back to CVS

From: Jan Hendrik <jan.hendrik_at_myrealbox.com>
Date: 2007-02-13 10:40:12 CET

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.

A timestamp reset to an earlier date should be considered even
more a user error then, but SVN will happily commit then. At least
SVN should provide a --force switch to have it compare ALL files in
WC with base, no matter what timestamps say.

JH
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