svn switch, touches files with svn:keywords
Hello subversion-users, I think I found a bug in subversion, not in the issue tracker: Subversion: svn, version 1.9.4 (r1740329) compiled Apr 24 2016, 15:40:35 on x86-microsoft-windows System: Windows 7, SP1 Steps to reproduce: 1. Create a branch b1. 2. Create an dummy file in b1, with svn:keywords. 3. Don't use the svn:keywords on the file. 4. Commit the changes to b1. 5. Create a branch b2, from b1. 6. Perform a switch to b2. Expected results: - Dummy file modification time hasn't change Actual results - Dummy file modification time has change This is a problem specially with header files, in C++ projects. This bug wasn't present in svn 1.7.9 r1462340. Can someone else confirm, and will proceed to open the issue. Thanks, *Federico Prades Illanes* - *ext. (2)75682 - Software Evangelist* *Quantitative and Business Solutions (QBS) **- CIB - **BBVA* -- "Este mensaje está dirigido de manera exclusiva a su destinatario y puede contener información privada y confidencial. No lo reenvíe, copie o distribuya a terceros que no deban conocer su contenido. En caso de haberlo recibido por error, rogamos lo notifique al remitente y proceda a su borrado, así como al de cualquier documento que pudiera adjuntarse. Por favor tenga en cuenta que los correos enviados vía Internet no permiten garantizar la confidencialidad de los mensajes ni su transmisión de forma íntegra. Las opiniones expresadas en el presente correo pertenecen únicamente al remitente y no representan necesariamente la opinión del Grupo BBVA." "This message is intended exclusively for the adressee and may contain privileged and confidential information. Please, do not disseminate, copy or distribute it to third parties who should not receive it. In case you have received it by mistake, please inform the sender and delete the message and attachments from your system. Please keep in mind that e-mails sent by Internet do not allow to guarantee neither the confidentiality or the integrity of the messages sent."
Re: svn switch, touches files with svn:keywords
On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 6:36 AM, FEDERICO PRADES ILLANES wrote: > Hello subversion-users, > > I think I found a bug in subversion, not in the issue tracker: > > Subversion: svn, version 1.9.4 (r1740329) >compiled Apr 24 2016, 15:40:35 on x86-microsoft-windows > System: Windows 7, SP1 > > Steps to reproduce: > > Create a branch b1. > Create an dummy file in b1, with svn:keywords. > Don't use the svn:keywords on the file. > Commit the changes to b1. > Create a branch b2, from b1. > Perform a switch to b2. > > Expected results: > > Dummy file modification time hasn't change > > Actual results > > Dummy file modification time has change > > This is a problem specially with header files, in C++ projects. This bug > wasn't present in svn 1.7.9 r1462340. > > Can someone else confirm, and will proceed to open the issue. > > Thanks, > > Federico Prades Illanes - ext. (2)75682 - Software Evangelist > Quantitative and Business Solutions (QBS) - CIB - BBVA I didn't expect it, but I'm completely unsurprised. svn:keywords have to rendered, and switching an upstream repository, branch, tag, etc., etc. can all change the WebURL, Author, Date, and other keywords. So I'd be completely unsurprised if all files with svn:keywords get reparsed and touched, even if no change results in the end. Tis is one of the fragilities of keywords in all source control systems. innocuous changes with no change in performance lead to modifications of source files, even such innocuous changes as comment lines.
