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Re: Subversion Problem - How to save file modify time?

From: 郭煜 <guoy_at_dscomm.com.cn>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:40:49 +0800

Dear Mr. Furter,

    Yes, it's a good idea. I have suggested it to our coding managers and coding engineers. But they can not accept for our great source files and many outside debugging without version control system supported at user's locale.

Thanks & Best Regards,
Yvon Guo Yu , 郭煜 / 上海迪爱斯通讯设备公司 开发一部
Addr: 上海市平江路15号(zip:200050)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Furter" <mf_at_rola.ch>
To: "郭煜" <guoy_at_dscomm.com.cn>
Cc: "Ben Collins-Sussman" <sussman_at_red-bean.com>; "Norbert Unterberg" <nunterberg_at_gmail.com>; <users_at_subversion.tigris.org>; <dev_at_subversion.tigris.org>
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 4:13 AM
Subject: Re: Subversion Problem - How to save file modify time?




On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, [gb2312] 郭煜 wrote:

>
> Dear Mr. Collins-Sussman,
>
>
> We used other version control system before. If using subversion was
> sured, we should move all files form old version control system to
> subversion. These files include source files and destination files and
> even other many invendors' source files and destination files. But,
> subversion will lost their modify time all. Oh... Some of our
> files maybe fifteen years old. A lot of our coding engineers are new.
> Our coding managers feels difficulty to manage the great source and
> tech-support the destination file without file modify time.
>
> Of course I think subversion developement team is the most specially on
> version control system. Also of course the coding habit is belong to
> coding engineers and coding managers. So we have to support the habit
> belong to them.
>
> It's so sorry. But we wish that this problem will be shot soon. Says
> again, I like subversion client very much truely.
>
> By the way, why could not you save the commit time to file create time
> and save the the last changed time to file modify time? Usually, in
> operation system, file create time is not really and not very useful.
> Why don't you use it?
>

I guess a possible solution to your problem would be to write a
script which imports your tree and groups files with the same modification
date into a revision with that date. That way you can just look at the log
of a file to see when it last changed.

I could help you with such a script if you like this idea.

Martin
Received on 2008-07-15 01:47:30 CEST

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