Alan Jay Weiner wrote:
> Am I correct in thinking that Subversion doesn't maintain a timestamp for
each
> file? That when checked out ("Switch" or "Update" commands) they will be
set
> to either the current time or the time of the last commit? (depending on
the
> setting of "use-commit-times")
>
> (this, btw, is one thing I *don't* like about Subversion - I'd much rather
the
> file information stayed with the file... Although I can understand the
> reasoning... I did try changing svn:date on revisions and that worked;
I
> couldn't do it on individual files though - am I right in thinking there
> isn't a way to have different timestamps on files within a single
revision?)
Entirely correct. The theory is that the important time is the time when the
changes are committed into the repository, not whenever the changes happened
to be made in a working copy. This makes complete sense for the primary
intended use of subversion - source code control. It would be interesting to
hear the details of why this isn't ideal for your application of subversion.
> I could simulate this by committing each file individually; that would
create
> revisions for each file, and I could set the svn:date for each revision to
the
> date that I wanted that file to be. This would create a huge number of
> revisions, but I'd get timestamps that would match my CDROM backups...
>
> Is there a downside to doing this? Not sure if I will - realistically,
I
> almost never go back more than a few revisions and this sounds like more
work
> than I want to do... But conceptually, this'd work, right?
>
> Essentially, sort all the files (within a backup) by date, commit them
> individually, and then create a tag to mark that backup's point in time.
> Then repeat for each backup in sequence...
The downside is you have a mass of revisions that would be very hard to
navigate when you *do* want to look back through them.
Also, "svn log" doesn't show you the source of copies - i.e. in "svn log
.../trunk" you don't see tags - you have to look at the tag itself, see what
revnum it originates from and correlate that with the log of trunk.
Yes, this is annoying.
Max.
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Received on Mon Jul 19 15:27:13 2004