294388 - Annoyance when using Subversion for bookmark backup

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Stefan Heinzmann]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-DE; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-DE; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

The bookmark file contains information when a bookmark was last accessed. This
causes the bookmark file to be updated regularly, which is an annoyance when
using a versioning system such as Subversion to back it up.

Accessing a bookmark belongs to the browsing history and should not be logged in
the bookmark file. The bookmark file should only be changed when a bookmark gets
added/changed/deleted.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Import bookmarks.html into a Subversion repository
2. Check out a working copy from this repository for Firefox to use
3. Start Firefox, use the bookmarks, without changing them
4. Commit the bookmarks.html file

Actual Results:  
Although the bookmarks themselves weren't changed, the bookmarks file is treated
as changed, and the change is committed to the Subversion repository

Expected Results:  
The bookmarks.html file should have been left unchanged. In this case Subversion
would not have detected a change and not bumped the revision number.

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

Firefox maintains the bookmark format used by Netscape. This is wontfix/invalid.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

This bug has had no comments for a long time. Statistically, we have found that
bug reports that have not been confirmed by a second user after three months are
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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.