Author: skitching
Date: Sun May 22 16:48:13 2005
New Revision: 171385
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=171385&view=rev
Log:
Clarified cause of subversion date problems.
Modified:
jakarta/commons/proper/commons-build/trunk/xdocs/releases/prepare.xml
Modified: jakarta/commons/proper/commons-build/trunk/xdocs/releases/prepare.xml
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs/jakarta/commons/proper/commons-build/trunk/xdocs/releases/prepare.xml?rev=171385&r1=171384&r2=171385&view=diff
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--- jakarta/commons/proper/commons-build/trunk/xdocs/releases/prepare.xml
(original)
+++ jakarta/commons/proper/commons-build/trunk/xdocs/releases/prepare.xml Sun
May 22 16:48:13 2005
@@ -166,12 +166,15 @@
</p>
<p>
<b>IMPORTANT!</b> At the current time, selecting by date in subversion
within the
- ASF repository isn't reliable. The reason is that imports of data from
CVS
- repositories into <i>any</i> part of the subversion repository stuffs
up subversion's
- date-based indexes for all modifications prior to that import, even in
non-related
- parts of the repository (the indexes are repository-wide). So while
dates are
- reported correctly in "svn log" output, only revision numbers should be
used with
- the -r option. See issue #752 in the subversion issue tracker at
tigris.org.
+ ASF repository isn't reliable. The reason is that when converting a
date to a revision
+ number, subversion assumes that revision N has an earlier date than
revision N+M, and
+ that it can therefore perform a binary search on revision numbers to
locate one with
+ the required date. However CVS imports of data that retain the original
date
+ information from CVS break this assumption. And unfortunately because
revisions
+ are repository-wide information, this affects date-based searches
+ even in directories unrelated to the ones that CVS stuff was imported
into.
+ So while dates are reported correctly in "svn log" output, only
revision numbers should
+ be used with the -r option. See issue #752 in the subversion issue
tracker at tigris.org.
</p>
</subsection>
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