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Re: Keeping last-modified dates

From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2006c_at_ryandesign.com>
Date: 2006-08-30 00:51:55 CEST

On Aug 29, 2006, at 22:25, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

> I would guess that it wouldn't be impossible to write wrapper
> scripts for svn that put the last mod date into a property just
> before a commit, and then modified the date based on that property
> just after a checkout or update. Tricky decisions would be what to
> do if an update resulted in a merge (presumably keep the merge time
> as last mod time), and recognizing cases where someone checked
> something in without using your script (so you'd need to fall back
> to the commit time).

The problem with that is obviously the initial import: If I'm
importing a project that's been developed without version control
over the past two years, I don't suddenly want all of the files in
the project to have today's (or any other) modification date. I want
each file to remember the date on which that file was modified. As
has been explained by others, this is useful information.

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