Mutating history in Subversion and Bazaar

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 14:12 +0800, James Henstridge wrote:
> On 31/08/06, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> wrote:
> > So, we would have to make sure that Subversion revisions with the same
> > revnum and UUID are not necessarily considered to be the same revision
> > by Bazaar. How about adding the timestamp of the Subversion commit to
> > the revision id? This won't be the same if you uncommit and then
> > recommit.
> Isn't it possible to edit the revision property holding the commit
> date after the commit in Subversion? (assuming a hook script has been
> installed to allow revision property editing).
Yes, though only if that hook script allows editing the svn:date
revprop. I'm not sure whether that should be considered a problem
though. If somebody would edit a Bazaar revision without changing the
revision id, that can corrupt the distributed database as well.

Cheers,

Jelmer
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Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> - http://samba.org/~jelmer/
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