Re: [rdiff-backup-users] please resend tested patches

[Andrew Ferguson]

Andrew Ferguson wrote:
> dean gaudet wrote:
>> hi... i figure it can't hurt too badly if i commit patches which i've only 
>> read and not tested.  can't be worse than the current situation.
> 
> Thanks Dean!
> 
> I'll try to do some more testing with my patches -- the only possible
> issue I anticipate is if someone does a backup on Day 1, applies the
> patches on Day 2, does a backup on Day 3, and on Day 4 tries to restore
> from Day 1. Maybe rdiff-backup will complain if, for example, it tries
> to set a creation date but cannot find one in the Day 1 backup?

I just tested this use case and there weren't any problems.

I could make it fail if I updated the server-side to CVS HEAD and kept
the client-side at 1.1.5, but that's an unsupported setup anyway, so I'm
not going to correct that error.

Hope this improves life for the other Mac OS X users,
Andrew

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