Re: Saving and Restoring the timestamp of each file in SVN

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 12:08 AM, <Michael.Hutter_at_preh-ima.com> wrote:
>
> May be it would be interesting to implement this function in SVN as a new
feature.
> The advantage of saving and restoring the timestamp is, that it's still
possible to synchronize the files, using datetime based compare utilities
like e. g. FreeCommander.
>

I doubt it will work as well as you think.

What if you modify a file, and then sync it with your external tool. But
you change your mind, so you revert your changes. Maybe you sync that
reverted file with a new timestamp. Anyway, now do an update. Now your file
has an OLDER timestamp, so it will not sync the updated file.

Same basic problem with build/make tools that check timestamps. This is why
pretty much very version control system does it this way and doesn't
restore timestamps.

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