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Re: Windows-specific questions about Bazaar


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Windows-specific questions about Bazaar
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:11:21 +0200

> From: Alexander Belchenko <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:16:52 +0200
> 
> Stefan Monnier пишет:
> >>  . CVS was notorious for problems when the time zone switches from
> >>    Standard Time to DST and back, even though modern Windows systems
> >>    and NTFS store times and file time stamps in UTC.  Typically,
> >>    unless you did something special, the first "cvs up" after the
> >>    switch would send the entire sandbox upstream.  (I even wrote a
> >>    program that moved all time stamps an hour forward or back to avoid
> >>    that.)  Does Bazaar cope correctly with this, assuming the
> >>    time-zone information is set correctly in the Registry?
> > 
> > AFAIK, bzr does not use time-stamps in a semantics-significant way.
> > So at most you may notice a slight performance hit when the time changes
> > because Bzr ends up scanning more files than strictly needed.
> > But it won't change the data sent over the network, AFAIK.
> 
> That's correct.

Thanks.





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