Re: svn does not detect file recodings as changes

On 2/20/07, Vincent Lefevre <vincent+svn@vinc17.org> wrote:
> On 2007-02-19 15:08:55 -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
> > This is an error in the recode utility, not svn.
>
> No. "recode" behaves as documented, not "svn". And even if it is
> documented, it is still a very bad behavior as there are other
> (say, more valid) ways to get the same mtime while the contents
> are different. Programs whose behavior is based on timestamps
> are bad (this is the case for "make", for historical reasons,
> but Subversion is rather new and shouldn't go this way).

You'd rather wait for Subversion to read all of your entire 500MB
working copy? You or your users will get insane.

Subversion does and always will use the mtime as a heuristic for
'changedness' in its detection logic, until someone comes up with a
faster way to do the same thing.

bye,

Erik.

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Received on Tue Feb 20 13:46:27 2007