RE: Timestamp Frustrations

On 3 Jun 2005 Dale Worley wrote:

> You might want to look into the Unison file synchronizer, which
> copies changed files based on their contents, which is much more
> robust. (It also keeps the timestamps aligned, if you want.)

Thanks, that looks quite interesting. I'll look at it.

> Check through the archived mailing lists. IIRC, there's been
> significant work on a Subversion option so that when Subversion
> updates a WC file, it changes its modification time to be when that
> version of the file was committed to the repository.

That appears to be present in the use-commit-times option in the config
file. What I need would be one step further, a use-file-times option
which would automatically preserve the file time in a property and then
restore it on checkout, update, revert, switch, or merge.

Incidentally, why doesn't use-commit-times affect svn merge? I must be
missing something in how I understand merges, because I would expect it
to have the same effect on merge as on checkout etc.

--
Tom
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