Re: New user, file timestamp question.

On Thu, 2003-04-17 at 00:54, Rob Kramer wrote:
> I asked this a few days ago, but didn't get an anwer yet. I think it is
> because perhaps it is a Dumb Question. :)

It's not a dumb question, but it's a problem of conflicting constraints:

  * There are reasons to want to preserve timestamps across an import
and checkout, e.g. if you're checking in generated files and you want
your build system to know that it doesn't have to regenerate those
files.

  * On the other hand, if a checkout or update munges timestamps, you
run the risk of fooling a build system into thinking a file hasn't been
modified when it has. Consider:

  svn co project-url wc
  cd wc; make
  svn update -r oldrev file
  make

  * And, of course, we want to keep our code simple, particularly inside
libsvn_wc where things are already a bit messy. So having a lot of
dials and knobs isn't great either.

We've talked about adding an svn:original-date property to at least
remember the imported date, but I can't remember how that conversation
turned out.

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Received on Thu Apr 17 21:00:11 2003