Re: SVN conversion glitch?

[Mike Stump <mrs at apple dot com>]

On Nov 30, 2005, at 7:49 AM, Gunther Nikl wrote:
> There seem to be more conversion glichtes. I retrieved gcc-2_95-branch
> from the svn repository and diffed it with my CVS checkout. The diff
> contained lots of differences.
> Many files had different CVS $Id strings.

> I was told that this is harmless but what is the reason for this  
> difference?

Some (all?) of these were probably caused by changing the cvs repo  
pre-svn switchover.  In cvs these things are not version controlled,  
and `fixing' them caused newly fetched files to then be different  
then those same exact files fetched in the past (before they were  
`fixed') even thoughy one fetches the same exact version.  The only  
solution is to never check in a file without -ko in cvs in the first  
place.  svn improves upon this by having substitutions all off in the  
first place.

You can see if this is the case by refetching from cvs and then  
comparing to svn.