RE: RE: Re: Keeping last-modified dates

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Fairhead [mailto:steve@fivetrees.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 11:01 AM
> To: users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: RE: Re: Keeping last-modified dates
>
>
> Ian Brockbank said:
>
>
> When doing a rollback, or anything other than what the
> makefile system is
> designed to deal with, it's always prudent to do a "make
> clean" (or its
> equivalent, or a "touch" of the affected file[s]) -
> regardless of what VCS
> you're using, or indeed not using. T'was ever thus.
>

        Not good enough. If you rollback an 'add' (a new file was
added) then you have to be sure to delete the file. Nothing like a
stray class file in QA (via a patch) that didn't make it to Prod (full
build) and people wondering why the feature is "missing" in prod. =P

>
> Forgive me, but you appear to be blaming the tools for what
> amounts to a
> user error. I know the error (been there ;)), but once bitten...
>
> In any case, it's becoming abundantly clear that "preserve original
> timestamp" should be a checkout option. As someone else has
> noted, consider
> the Unix "cp -p" precedent.
>

I would agree. I find a

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Received on Tue Aug 29 18:57:52 2006