Concerning Re: Poor performance in windows. Sw
Dmitri Colebatch wrote on 15 Feb 2007, 8:56, at least in part:
> On 2/14/07, Jing Xue <jxue01@digizenstudio.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
FTP synching e.g. Not everyone has his own live server standing
in the own basement and not every hoster provides SVN to make
the live copy just another WC. As long as _always_ done from the
same WC there's no issue, but the moment you do it from a
different one you either have to upload *everything* (even if it is
100MB) or first to equalize timestamps with those on the server to
get to the files different (or sync the dozen of files in as many
folders one by one and pray you did not miss one in the half an
hour that manual work takes). Maybe there are tools that handle
this just the other way round, but WS-FTP did not nor does
TotalCommander. Probably one could automize this with a post-
commit hook and rsync, but this also takes a lot of control out of it.
Anyway, I am not going to make this a big issue, guess most
folks here are programmers with little to no interest in websites and
therefore having not much use for FTP sync and its pecularities
either.
> What about comparing timestamps and filesize - if either differ then the
> file must be a candidate yeah? I know this is still a long way from
> perfect, but it would cover most of the cases that people are concerned
> about.
Would not catch the corrected typo issue though it might serve for
general purpose without much (if any) of a performance penalty
while significantly enhancing SVN's guessing about a file being
modified or not. Anyway, if something like the proposed is done at
at all I think a switch option that takes *all* guessing out of it would
be by far easier - and serving the purpose much better.
JH
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