Re: Poor performance in windows. Switching back to CVS

Gavin Lambert wrote:

> Editing programs are designed to modify the contents of files, so
> preserving the last modification timestamp is expressly forbidden -- if
> they modify the file, they *have* to update the timestamp, or they're
> evil lying programs.

It is not up to an application to update the timestamp. The operating
system does it automatically as the file is modified. An application
can specify it's own timestamp if it wants, and undo the OS change after
the fact.

> An evil lying program will confuse SVN -- but you
> shouldn't be using evil programs in the first place.

If you have any doubts about the timestamp you can always update them
yourself to the current time with the unix 'touch' program or a similar
tool. That would force subversion to check for actual differences in
content. You'll lose the real timestamp info in doing this, but since
subversion doesn't preserve that, it will be gone in a fresh checkout
anyway.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell@gmail.com
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