Concerning Re: svn does not detect file recodi
Les Mikesell wrote on 20 Feb 2007, 7:54, at least in part:
> I think what people are requesting is a _option_ to force a correct
> determination of 'changedness' to cover the situations where the
> timestamp can't be trusted. As a historical precedent, you might
> consider the 'rsync' program which needs to make approximately the
> same determination and thus the same need for an option to do it the
> fast or
> the correct way - and note that it does have exactly such an option.
To me it looks this time issue can have much more practical and
frequent reasons than the occasional deliberate resetting of mtime
for special cases during FTP synching I have happening here.
Anyway, the current SVN behaviour is in so far even worse as in a
svn update any modification in such files is not merged, but
overwritten - read: lost - as I just confirmed in a test, even if the
filesize has changed by this "non-mtimed" modification. So IMHO
SVN makes quite a dangerous guess by exclusively relying on
mtime even in cases where modifications are not only just not
committed, but could be written over.
JH
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Received on Tue Feb 20 15:12:43 2007