Re: [PATCH][RFC] svnadmin load --ignore-dates

Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> C. Michael Pilato wrote:
>> Introduce '--ignore-dates' option for 'svnadmin load',
>
> [...] However, 'load --ignore-dates' has another use-case: preventing
> the "-r {DATE} doesn't work as intended" syndrome when loading a
> project's history into an existing repository. [...]

Ignoring dates upon load would only *keep* '-r {DATE}' working for the previous history that was in the repo before the load, while *losing* the date history of the newly loaded part.  In some cases that might be useful but it's not a solution to the problem in general.

- Julian
Received on 2014-02-05 12:21:44 CET