Re: "svn diff" and "svn log" timestamp weirdness

Ben Collins-Sussman <[email protected]> Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:49:13 -0500

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On Aug 31, 2005, at 1:39 PM, John Peacock wrote:

> Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>
>> I suppose we  could either (A) always store the svn:date property  
>> rounded off to  the nearest second, or (B) when loading the  
>> svn:date property for  comparison purposes, round it off to the  
>> nearest second (this would  be in our rev_hunt() binary search  
>> algorithm...)
>>
>
> The best solution is to do both now; round to seconds when  
> comparing, but stop storing subsecond precision.  When 2.0 comes  
> out, change the search code to stop rounding and perform a last  
> rounding when updating the repository.
>

I agree!  Can you submit a patch which does both things?