Re: svn does not detect file recodings as changes

On 2007-02-20 07:54:58 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> 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.

But rsync is different as it doesn't make sense to compare the ctime
for remote files. So, with rsync, not using the mtime would really
make things slower, contrary to Subversion. Hence the option.

With Subversion, the option would be useful only for users who want
to set the mtime to some value so that Subversion doesn't regard the
file as modified. I don't think such a feature would be a good idea,
though.

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