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Re: External item create file with wrong timestamp

From: Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 06:27:03 -0400

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 03:16, Mariusz Jasinski
<jasinski.mariusz_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On 17 Maj, 23:40, Daniel Becroft <djcbecr..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> TSVN->Settings->General->Set file dates to the "last commit time"
>>
>> > I would like to checkout files with "last modification time" (2002),
>> > no commit time.
>> > "last modification time" = last modification time on local disk,
>> > before commit.
>>
>> As Andy has said, this information is not stored in the repository.
>>
>> However, as a workaround (read: hack), you could commit the binary in
>> its own revision. Then, modify the revision date/time property to be
>> the modification time you require (note: I haven't tested this). This
>
>
> I checked this function more deeply.
> When I switched use-commit-times property on yes, files in external
> folders have commit timestamp.
>
> I confused SVN don't store "file modification time" in repository.
> It's a pity that SVN is worse than VSS in this area.
> I must accept this SVN feature.

File modification times are trivial to change to false values. A
design decision was made for Subversion that the only timestamp that
matters is when the repository was modified.

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