RE: RE: import files preserving timestamps

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Erickson [mailto:erickson_at_BAUERCONTROLS.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 5:11 PM
> To: Reedick, Andrew; Les Mikesell
> Cc: users_at_subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: RE: RE: import files preserving timestamps
>
> I think SVN uses timestamps for the initial check to see if more work
> needs to be done...
>
> If <filea> and <fileb> have completely different contents but the same
> timestamp you can copy <filea> overtop of <fileb> and the resulting
svn
> status shows no modifications. Then if you 'touch' the file, svn
> status
> detects the change.
>
> Brian
 

I stand corrected. It definitely is keying off of the timestamp.
What's really scary is that 'svn diff' is also keying off of the
timestamp. And there doesn't appear to be a way to force 'svn status'
to run a crc check.

$ svn revert foo.pl
$ time -r foo.pl time.pl
$ vi foo.pl and change/add a few characters
$ svn status foo.pl
M foo.pl
$ touch -r time.pl foo.pl
$ svn status foo.pl
  *nada*
$ svn diff foo.pl
  *nada*
$ diff foo.pl .svn/text-base/foo.pl.svn-base
  *differences shown*

Note to self. Be really careful with 'cp -p' and 'tar xpf' when working
in a view.

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Received on 2008-06-11 16:25:52 CEST