Bug in Subversion regarding file attributes

2011-08-21 Thread Andy Canfield
I created a repository and created a subdirectory in it named 'scripts'. In this are a half-dozen Linux shell scripts. Unfortunately, I set the execute flag on only five of them; the sixth was untested as of my first commit so I had never noticed that the execute attribute was unset. [1] I set

Re: Bug in Subversion regarding file attributes

2011-08-21 Thread Andy Levy
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 07:21, Andy Canfield wrote: > I created a repository and created a subdirectory in it named 'scripts'. In > this are a half-dozen Linux shell scripts. Unfortunately, I set the execute > flag on only five of them; the sixth was untested as of my first commit so I > had never

Re: Bug in Subversion regarding file attributes

2011-08-21 Thread Thorsten Schöning
Guten Tag Andy Canfield, am Sonntag, 21. August 2011 um 13:21 schrieben Sie: > In my humble opinion [1] and [3] should have resulted in the file > attributes stored in the repository being changed. Subversion doesn't version file attributes. http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.advanced.props.

Re: Bug in Subversion regarding file attributes

2011-08-21 Thread Andy Canfield
On 08/21/2011 06:48 PM, Andy Levy wrote: On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 07:21, Andy Canfield wrote: I created a repository and created a subdirectory in it named 'scripts'. In this are a half-dozen Linux shell scripts. Unfortunately, I set the execute flag on only five of them; the sixth was unteste

Re: Bug in Subversion regarding file attributes

2011-08-21 Thread David Weintraub
> On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 07:21, Andy Canfield wrote: >> I created a repository and created a subdirectory in it named 'scripts'. In >> this are a half-dozen Linux shell scripts. Unfortunately, I set the execute >> flag on only five of them; the sixth was untested as of my first commit so I >> had

Re: Bug in Subversion regarding file attributes

2011-08-21 Thread David Weintraub
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Andy Canfield wrote: >> >> If the file's timestamp didn't change, Subversion won't pick up the >> change. > > So does this mean that if the file's timestamp does not change, but the > files's contents change, Subversion will not pick up the changed contents; Almos

Re: Bug in Subversion regarding file attributes

2011-08-21 Thread Thorsten Schöning
Guten Tag Andy Canfield, am Sonntag, 21. August 2011 um 15:02 schrieben Sie: > I am having a similar problem now with directories that need to be > globally readable. This happens because the repository contains a web > site, and the user ('andy') who checks out the repository is not the > user

Re: Bug in Subversion regarding file attributes

2011-08-21 Thread Mark Phippard
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 11:03 AM, David Weintraub wrote: > What Subversion does is look at the timestamp of the file and the > contents of the .svn directory that contains the file information. If > the timestamp has been touched, it is compared against the base to see > if there was an actual c

Re: Bug in Subversion regarding file attributes

2011-08-21 Thread Stephen Butler
On Aug 21, 2011, at 13:21 , Andy Canfield wrote: > I created a repository and created a subdirectory in it named 'scripts'. In > this are a half-dozen Linux shell scripts. Unfortunately, I set the execute > flag on only five of them; the sixth was untested as of my first commit so I > had neve

Re: Bug in Subversion regarding file attributes

2011-08-21 Thread Andy Canfield
On 08/21/2011 10:52 PM, Mark Phippard wrote: On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 11:03 AM, David Weintraub > wrote: What Subversion does is look at the timestamp of the file and the contents of the .svn directory that contains the file information. If the timestamp ha

Re: Bug in Subversion regarding file attributes

2011-08-21 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Andy Canfield wrote: > > > On 08/21/2011 10:52 PM, Mark Phippard wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 11:03 AM, David Weintraub wrote: > >> >> What Subversion does is look at the timestamp of the file and the >> contents of the .svn directory that contains the file

Re: Bug in Subversion regarding file attributes

2011-08-21 Thread Thorsten Schöning
Guten Tag Andy Canfield, am Montag, 22. August 2011 um 06:07 schrieben Sie: > WOW! So the .svn hidden directory contains a spare copy of every file in > that directory??? Why not just store a computed checksum? You really want to read about the concepts of Subversion and not wonder about things w

Re: Bug in Subversion regarding file attributes

2011-08-22 Thread Les Mikesell
On 8/21/11 11:07 PM, Andy Canfield wrote: WOW! So the .svn hidden directory contains a spare copy of every file in that directory??? Why not just store a computed checksum? The theory is that disk space is cheaper than a fast network. And sometimes it is true... It also lets the client do