Re: [resend] Re: Changing svn:date?

james-tigris@jrv.org writes:

> > Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 00:33:37 +0200
> > From: =?UTF-8?B?QnJhbmtvIMSMaWJlag==?= <brane@xbc.nu>
> >
> > You must be very, very careful when changing svn:date. At the moment,
> > SVN assumes that commit dates increase monotonically with revision
> > numbers. So, while it's possible to change svn:date, braking this
> > assumption would mean that the -r{date} option would not work reliably
> > any more.
>
> I assume this means that great care must be taken that the system
> clock on the server must never be set backwards?

Yes, indeed.

A bunch of date pitfalls are documented in this issue:

   http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=752

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Received on Tue Aug 26 17:35:12 2003