tests/svn-safe-append.py
author Christian Ebert <blacktrash@gmx.net>
Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:20:47 +0200
changeset 9306 7bd1b663727d
parent 6439 c1b47c0fd2b6
child 29195 bdba6a2015d0
permissions -rwxr-xr-x
keyword: remove "help keyword" from test Testing help output does not make sense as we have no way to check for errors in content which would be the only reasonable test here.

#!/usr/bin/env python

__doc__ = """Same as `echo a >> b`, but ensures a changed mtime of b.
Without this svn will not detect workspace changes."""

import sys, os

text = sys.argv[1]
fname = sys.argv[2]

f = open(fname, "ab")
try:
    before = os.fstat(f.fileno()).st_mtime
    f.write(text)
    f.write("\n")
finally:
    f.close()
inc = 1
now = os.stat(fname).st_mtime
while now == before:
    t = now + inc
    inc += 1
    os.utime(fname, (t, t))
    now = os.stat(fname).st_mtime