Re: timestamp preservation design (issue 1256)

On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 11:52:26AM -0500, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> For developers, it *does* satisfy make 90% of the time. Most
> developers run 'svn up; make'. Is it the various broken-backdating
> scenarios that bother you? That 10%?

Use case:

A lot of Debian package maintainers are going to do 'svn export;
debuild', and 99+% of the time, debuild is going to invoke "make".

It's not practical to build Debian packages within CVS or SVN checkouts,
because the former is littered with CVS/ directories and the latter with
.svn/ directories.

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