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Re: File dates not making much sense to me

From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2005_at_ryandesign.com>
Date: 2005-06-28 18:58:48 CEST

On 28.06.2005, at 16:02, Norbert Unterberg wrote:

> 2005/6/28, Frank LaRosa <frank@franklarosa.com>:
>
>> I notice that when I checkout files from a repository onto a new
>> location, the files appear timestamped with the time I checked them
>> out, not the time they were originally created or checked into the
>> repository.
>>
>> Is this the intended behavior?
>>
>> I find this situation very troubling. My project includes a large
>> HTTPD
>> directory which is posted to a web server using an Ant FTP task. If
>> each user ends up with arbitrary file dates, then the Ant task isn't
>> going to work right, since it is designed to send only those files
>> that
>> are newer than what's already on the web site.
>>
>> Is there any way to keep the local file dates consistent across
>> users?
>
> Yes, this is the intended behaviour. And this is very convenient when
> you are managing source files with SVN, because after a checkout, a
> simply "make" call will automatically rebuild all the files that have
> been updated by svn.
>
> You can instruct svn to use the last commited time as timestamp
> instead. See the description of the "use-commit-times" flag in the
> subversion config file:
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch07.html#svn-ch-7-sect-1.3.2

Yes, well, it's not particularly convenient for people who are not
writing source files that get compiled, but rather source files that
get uploaded to a web server. Yes, use-commit-times is the answer and
works fine. I'm just taking the opportunity to exercise a favorite
pasttime, which is to get miffed when assumptions are made that don't
match with my reality. :-)

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