From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:55:03 GMT
Subject: Re: Intermittent failures in t9119
Message-ID: <20101209175503.GA16478@dcvr.yhbt.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vd3pesb99.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> writes:
> > Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> >>  (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.
> 
> Ok, here is a minimum patch to do that.

> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Thanks, Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>

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Eric Wong