Re: Intermittent failures in t9119

From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date: Dec 6, 2010, 19:10 UTC
Message-ID: <20101206191055.GA9597@dcvr.yhbt.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vy684t0mt.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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>  (2) Nobody uses the value from "Text Last Updated" field in practice, so
>      that bug has been unnoticed so far;
> 
>  (3) And it is not worth fixing it ;-)
> 
> For now, I would suggest fixing the failing test to ignore the "Text Last
> Updated" field while comparing, and if somebody is inclined to, we would
> update the code to match what "svn info" does.

Agreed on both points. I consider "git svn log" and "git svn info" to be reasonable approximations of svn behavior, not exact replicas. Exactly matching would be extremely difficult given variations between different svn versions, and also svn requiring network access while git svn does not.

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Eric Wong