> From: Mark Watts [mailto:mwatts3@stny.rr.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 4:45 PM
> * As a user I find it very annoying that a check out (svn co) into a new
> working directory leaves all files with the current date time stamp. As a
> contractor I often have to merge files in from customers source repositories
> in my local repository I use for their work. To do this I do a fresh check
> out (svn co) from Subversion, then do the equivalent of an update (most
> often a 'get') from their repository over the top of my working directory.
> However, because I have done this subversion now thinks that most files are
> up-to-date because the 'get' sets the timestamps of files to a date in the
> past, usually the last date it was edited. This leaves me with something of
> a mess. As it is right now I am going to have to write a small python
> script that will create a database of the current date time stamps of all
> the files in a particular revision, check that in and then on a fresh
> checkout run the script to reset all the date time stamps to their proper
> values. Quite the hack. Frankly, there may be some better way to handle
> this situation that I am simply not aware of. If so please point me in the
> right direction as I REALLY don't want to do it this way but the other
> benefits of subversion are just too good to ignore.
Simply 'touch' all the files you 'get' from the other end? All is well then.
Sander
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Received on Fri May 2 16:50:43 2003