Re: Checkout dates

Ralf.Bauer-Malz@etas.de wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> when I do a 'svn co' the creation date of all files of the repository
> are set to the actual date in the working copy. I would have expected
> the original creation date before checkin or at least the checkin date
> of the file.

Set "use-commit-times = yes" in your run-time 'config' file. Then each
file will have the datestamp of the last time in changed in the repository.

>
> This is very annoying

No, actually, the current default is optimized for people writing
software. If I run 'svn up' and 5 files change, they all get a
timestamp of "right now", which means tools like 'make' know exactly
what to compile.

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Received on Sun Mar 28 17:37:49 2004