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Re: preserving date-time of files in repository

From: Dave Nadler <Dave.Nadler_at_nadler.com>
Date: 2007-01-03 01:06:46 CET

Right Mike, thanks for clarifying. If a file was last edited
back in 1991, we need the file timestamp to remain 1991
until somebody really changes it.

Do I understand correctly that "use-file-modify-times"
or equivalent just doesn't exist ?

Thanks again,
Best Regards, Dave

At 11:19 AM 1/2/2007, Mike Brenner wrote:
>Hi Andreas,
>
>That ("use-commit-times") did not answer the question
>"when it's checked into and out of the respository"
>"how can I get subversion to preserve the date-time "
>"when the file was last *really* changed?".
>
>The "use-commit-times" specifically uses the time
>you committed into the library, as opposed to
>the time you last CHANGED the file. And it does not
>even do that! If you change a file in 1999, then you
>move it into subversion in 2005, then you
>take it out of subversion and re-check it into
>subversion in 2007, it will have the date 2007,
>not 2005. So it is not the time it last changed
>its check-in date into subversion, but rather the
>MOST RECENT check-in date into subversion.
>
>What subversion needs is the option to
>"use-file-modify-times" instead of commit times.
>If that option were to become available, then
>the first time someone started copying files
>around, they would see the problem and
>start using that "use-file-modify-times"
>option!
>
>Mike Brenner

>Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2007 17:41:19 -0500
>To: users@subversion.tigris.org
>From: Dave Nadler <Dave.Nadler@nadler.com>
>Subject: preserving date-time of files in repository
>
>OK, I know that pulling out a file with an old date may cause a
>build to not do something; happy to do a clean/build if I must
>revert to an older version of a file.
>
>How can I get subversion to preserve the date-time of a file when
>its checked into and out of the repository ? The real time-stamp of
>when the file was last *really* changed is an important piece of
>information, and we need to preserve this. Especially during
>migration to use of subversion !
>
>Help ! I read the pragmatic book, searched the documentation, and
>cannot find out how to do this (or if it is indeed possible).
>Apologies if it is documented and I've somehow overlooked it...
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Best Regards, Dave

Dave Nadler, USA East Coast voice (978) 263-0097, drn@nadler.com

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