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Re: Keeping last-modified dates

From: Mike Brenner <mikeb_at_mitre.org>
Date: 2006-08-29 17:47:12 CEST

Excellent points, Ian. However, they assume that
you stay in the development environment past
the coding stage and throughout the testing and
deployment stage.

My example of testing involved
making a cold start, i.e., recompiling
all the files from scratch on a clean disk,
in order to begin a fully configured test.

As part of that process we check off the
modified date of each file, to enhance
the security that svn gives that it
designates a copy of the correct file.

Similarly, for certain non-developmental,
never-changing files that get configured
in order to include them in the final product,
changing the date makes it very wierd
to say this file bears today's date,
but I promise you, no one has modified
it in the last 5 years.

Ian Brockbank wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
>> Stability and debugging often depend on
>> having an original, unmodified file
>> for everything except the unit under test.
>>
>> We should evolve subversion towards
>> keeping the modified date.
>
> Conversely, if I'm trying to investigate a problem in an old version, I
> need to be able to roll back and play around with the old code. With
> subversion's current timestamp behaviour, I just need to update to the
> correct version and rebuild. If the timestamps were set to the check-in
> time or similar, Visual Studio would see that they were older than the
> object files and skip over them. I have wasted hours in the past trying
> to work out why my code wasn't doing what I expected only to find the
> code hadn't been rebuilt. Yes, in some ways trivial, but under pressure
> it's the simple things you miss.
>
> That's the issue subversion's current behaviour avoids. Fine, get it
> added as an option, but please don't force me to use it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ian Brockbank
> Senior Applications Software Engineer - Corporate
> e: ian.brockbank@wolfsonmicro.com / apps@wolfsonmicro.com
> scd: ian@scottishdance.net
> t: +44 131 272 7145
> f: +44 131 272 7001

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