Bug#376124: subversion: svn doesn't report modified file when timestamp has not changed

[Santiago Vila]

severity 376124 wishlist
thanks

On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Peter Samuelson wrote:

> clone 376103 -1
> retitle -1 recode: bad default: hides file modifications by restoring mtimes
> reassign -1 recode
> severity 376103 normal
> thanks
> 
> [Vincent Lefevre]
> > The "recode" utility does not update the timestamp (I assume this is
> > a feature).
> 
> Yeah, well ... I don't know whose brilliant idea it was, but it seems
> this _is_ documented:
> 
>   `--touch'
>  The _touch_ option is meaningful only when files are recoded over
>  themselves.  Without it, the time-stamps associated with files are
>  preserved, to reflect the fact that changing the code of a file
>  does not really alter its informational contents.

The fact that this is documented makes this to be wishlist, not grave.

I'll forward this upstream.


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Bug#376124: recode: bad default: hides file modifications by restoring mtimes
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