Greg Dickie <greg@max-t.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> We are transitioning more developers to subversion and the response seems
> quite good but I've had a couple of questions about how subversion handles
> file timestamps.
> - On checkout all files have the current time, this is different compared to
> CVS for example.
> - When importing source all files take the current time rather than the
> filesystem time.
>
> Is there a reason for this?
Subversion doesn't mess with timestamps or permissions at all, other
than possibly tweaking an executable bit (if you have svn:executable
set.) Files within within the svn repository are virtual: they have
no timestamp properties. When files are imported, they become
virtualized in a single repository revision. The original filesystem
timestamps are lost. When you checkout, the files all have the
timestamp when they were created in the "real world" of your working
copy, which is the current time.
I don't think this is deliberate... I just don't recall this
discussion ever coming up before. Nobody seems to have noticed or
cared. :-)
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Received on Fri Dec 6 14:49:21 2002