Bug updated with link to design discussion:
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1256
I see that this is slipping again!
Graeme
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Sanderson [mailto:matthew@formtrap.com]
> Sent: 08 March 2006 05:05
> To: users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Preserve commit times (issue #1256)
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to be able to commit/import a file F1 to the
> repository, then
> check that file out or update it, yielding a file F2 in
> another working
> copy, and have F2's time of last modification be the same as
> F1. Ie, the
> checkin+checkout procedure should preserve the file's mtime. The
> 'use-commit-times' config option doesn't do what I want.
>
> This is issue #1256, which has been around since SVN 1.0 or earlier.
> There's a stale, incomplete patch that attempts to add this
> functionality:
> http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgId=257080
>
> At the moment, the only way I can see to accomplish this is to:
> 1. stat the file to be checked in;
> 2. set the value of a property on that file equal to the file's mtime;
> 3. checkin/import the file into the repo;
> 4. check out/update/export the file into another WC;
> 5. read the value of the file's custom property;
> 6. call utime[s] on the just-checked-out file.
>
> Is this the only way to do this? It's a little ugly.
> Are there any future plans to support this in Subversion itself?
>
> The reason I want this is because I have source and generated
> files in a
> repo, and a bogus Make rule which claims to be able to generate the
> generated files from the source files, but which actually
> exits with an
> error instead of doing the generation, because the generation
> can only be
> done manually by a human on a different operating system. So this is a
> check for a human omission. I imagine there exist less
> corner-ish cases in
> which this functionality would be useful, too.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --matt
>
> Matthew Sanderson
> Senior Programmer (UNIX)
> TCG Information Systems Pty Ltd
> Sydney, Australia
> matthew@formtrap.com
> http://www.formtrap.com/
> +61 (02) 8303 2407
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