view tests/svn-safe-append.py @ 21087:3fb2affb023f

largefiles: make cat on standins do something

cat of a standin would silently fail.

The use of standins is mostly an implementation detail, but it is already a bit
leaking. Being able to see the content of standins might be convenient for
debugging.

#!/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