Re: random order due to APR hash change (was: random sort of svn status and svn diff)

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Vincent Lefevre
<vincent-svn_at_vinc17.net> wrote:

>> That's the result of a change in the APR hash table implementation.
>> Subversion often uses "hash order" and in the past this was always the
>> same for a given set of hash keys.  The new APR implementation means
>> that this order is no longer constant.
>
> In Subversion 1.6.x under Debian, it also affects the properties order
> in "svn dump": http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=664867
> I don't know about Subversion 1.7.x.
>
> As I've said in my bug report:
>
> ----------------------------------------
>
> After the upgrade to libapr1 1.4.6-1, the properties in the "svn dump"
> output are now in a random order. I don't think their order is
> specified, but IMHO, they should be in a consistent order to allow
> conventional tools like diff, MD5 checking on a dump, rsync[*] and
> so on to work nicely.

There is an issue filed for this:

http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4134

-- 
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/