On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 2:54 AM Nathan Hartman <hartman.nat...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 2:22 AM Johan Corveleyn <jcor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Contents of subversion-1.13.0-rc1.zip are identical to tags/1.13.0-rc1, > > and to branches/1.13.x@1867053 (except for expected differences in > > svn_version.h and svnpubsub, svnwcsub and nominate.pl (symlinks vs. file > > contents), and generated files). > > What do you use to compare the tarball contents to a working copy?
Ah, good question :-). I use GNU diff, from within cygwin, after performing an 'svn export https://.../tags/1.13.0-rc1' and 'svn export https://.../branches/1.13.x@XXX' (where XXX is the revision I get from executing 'svn log -v --stop-on-copy https://.../tags/1.13.0-rc1', i.e. the revision from which the tag was copied from the branch). Then I inspect that diff manually / visually. Also: before running the export, I change my system timezone to UTC, so "$Date$" keywords are expanded identically as in the tarball (those always contain UTC dates it seems). There might be another way to force "UTC timezone" during export for keyword expansion, but I don't know how (on Windows). On Linux it's easy to do I guess (for instance just setting TZ=XXX). The diff is quite small, except some "$HeadUrl$" keyword expansions (if the tarball was created from the tag, and I'm comparing to the branch export), some files that are only part of one or the other. And unfortunately on Windows symlinks are not supported, so I get "link .../nominate.pl" on the exported side vs. <entire contents of nominate.pl> on the other side. But I'm quite used to scrolling through that one. On *nix that won't be a problem I'm sure. I guess comparing to both the tag and the branch@REV-from-which-the-tag-was-created is a bit redundant, since I can trust SVN that they'll be identical modulo the modifications that were part of the 'tag commit'. This is a bit of manual work (I could script some parts of it I suppose), but I'm used to doing that while the tests are running in another window. So when the tests are finished, I'm mostly ready to sign and commit. -- Johan
