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Re: svn log says text-mods="true" but there are no diffs

From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent-svn_at_vinc17.net>
Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2020 02:58:52 +0100

On 2020-12-04 20:41:27 +0000, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre wrote on Fri, 04 Dec 2020 01:08 +00:00:
> > I get the following:
> >
> > $ svn log --xml -v -r 1984 https://scm.gforge.inria.fr/anonscm/svn/mpfr
> > <logentry
> > revision="1984">
> > <author>vlefevre</author>
> > <date>2002-07-23T16:22:08.000000Z</date>
> > <paths>
> > <path
> > prop-mods="false"
> > text-mods="true"
> > kind="file"
> > action="M">/trunk/mul.c</path>
> > </paths>
> > <msg>Fixed permissions.
> > </msg>
> > </logentry>
> > </log>
> >
> > I'm wondering why text-mods="true" while
> >
> > svn diff -c 1984 https://scm.gforge.inria.fr/anonscm/svn/mpfr
> >
> > shows no diffs.
>
> You may be running into this (quoting from svn_fs_contents_changed()'s docstring):
>
> * @note svn_fs_contents_changed() was not designed to be used to detect
> * when two files have different content, but really to detect when the
> * contents of a given file have changed across two points in its history.
> * For the purposes of preserving accurate history, certain bits of code
> * (such as the repository dump code) need to care about this distinction.
> * For example, it's not an error from the FS API point of view to call
> * svn_fs_apply_textdelta() and explicitly set a file's contents to exactly
> * what they were before the edit was made. We have a pair of functions
> * that can answer both of these questions, svn_fs_contents_changed() and
> * svn_fs_contents_different(). See issue 4598 for more details.
>
> Or maybe that revision was created by a pre-1.0 version of Subversion
> that had some bug or another.

That was in 2002, so at that time we were using CVS, and we converted
the repository to Subversion with cvs2svn on 2005-10-24.

But when I detected this issue, this was with a local mirror, thus
with a repository that has been rebuilt a few weeks ago on a machine
with Subversion 1.14.0.

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Received on 2020-12-06 02:59:09 CET

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