view tests/svn-safe-append.py @ 26265:077f20eed4b2

obsolete: clarify that 'successorssets' returns the latest successors

We do not return the first successors we found, we returns the latest (non
obsolete  (mostly)) one following the obsolete link transitively. We update the
documentation to make this clean.

#!/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