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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Windows-specific questions about Bazaar
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:59:56 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv8wdm9x2h.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <834ooamrou.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:15:29 +0200")

>  . 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.


        Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-12-01 21:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-01 19:15 Windows-specific questions about Bazaar Eli Zaretskii
2009-12-01 19:29 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-12-01 20:23   ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-12-01 22:15     ` Alexander Belchenko
2009-12-02  4:17       ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-12-02  5:02         ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-12-02  5:55         ` Alexander Belchenko
2009-12-01 19:56 ` David Robinow
2009-12-01 20:14   ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-12-01 21:59 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-12-01 22:16   ` Alexander Belchenko
2009-12-02  4:11     ` Eli Zaretskii

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