P.Marek | 18 Jun 19:56
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[ANNOUNCE] FSVS 1.2.0 released

Hello everybody!

After a long time I'm happy to release a new version.
The delay can be explained by it being incompatible with the older
versions; this is the cause for it being labeled for the new 1.2 series,
although the next big feature (mixed version working copies) is not
included yet.

For the impatient: see
   http://freshmeat.net/projects/fsvs (once it's updated) and
   http://doc.fsvs-software.org/,
but don't complain afterwards ;-)

 About the incompatibilities
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FSVS uses (the MD5 of) the absolute pathname as a key for storing internal
data - user-defined properties, a list of block-MD5s for faster change
detection, and things like that.

Now that has a problem if you're (very) unlucky and two of your paths hash
to the same MD5; or if you have nested working copies, eg. "/" and "/etc".
Here all files in the "/etc" working copy get the same internal key as the
ones below "etc" in the "/" working copy, and this will cause problems, as
the FSVS-managed meta-data gets partly changed from two working copies
simultaneously.

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Gmane