On Sun, Mar 04, 2018 at 11:12:00AM +0000, Philip Martin wrote: > Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de> writes: > > > Yes. And if the content differs, it must be rejected, because an FSFS > > repository can only store one content per SHA1 checksum. > > To be accurate the server-side code can handle the files perfectly well > if rep-caching is disabled.
Yes, that's true. But turning the rep-cache off is *not* recommended. > The on the client side the working copy code doesn't handle the files as > the pristines collide. The network protocol over HTTP will have problems as well: ra_serf won't fetch files it believes the working copy already has in the pristine store.