Lorenz wrote on Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 14:29:34 +0000: > Daniel Shahaf wrote: > >Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote on Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 19:44:07 -0400: > >> If you switch the upstream repo for a software source repo, recompile. > >> It's the best way to make sure you've not left some datestamped file > >> inconsistencies that could mess with the system. > > > >Subversion supports both the "recompile from scratch after switch" > >workflow and the "recompile minimally after switch" workflow. You don't > >have to use the latter if you don't like it. > > Could you please elaborate a bit on this? > > I assume you refere to the "use-commit-times" config option?
I mainly meant that Subversion, as a product, does not enforce either workflow. We provide «svn cleanup --remove-ignored --remove-unversioned» to support the latter work-flow, and we don't change mtimes unnecessarily to support the former workflow. (Hence accepting the OP's report as a bug.)
