Re: Poor performance in windows. Switching back to CVS

On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 01:53:10PM -0700, Jeff Smith wrote:
>
> Shoot... are we trying to make svn perform faster, or grind the
> process to a halt??
>
> Can you imagine the increased _drag___ if svn were supposed to assume
> that every timestamp were meaningless, and have to compare entire
> contents instead? That would be horrendous! I say if you haven't got
> valid timestamps (especially for large number of files), you haven't
> got version control.

+1.

I for one wouldn't care to debate on whether not updating the
timestamp is a user error, but I would argue strongly against paying some
significant performance penalty just to accommodate it - there may be
legitimate reasons to do that, but I can't think of any _good_ one.

-- 
Jing Xue
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