> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Brockbank [mailto:Ian.Brockbank@wolfsonmicro.com]
> Sent: 29 August 2006 15:20
> To: Mike Brenner; users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: RE: Re: Keeping last-modified dates
>
> 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.
I think that adding it as an option is all that people are asking for!
Also to keep the current behaviour as default.
It is the case that there are a lot of people that are interested in the
modified date-time information for a variety of reasons, and the
argument seems to be that these people should never need the modified
time because it has been deemed useless.
In reality there is no defining reason to use any of the methodologies
on offer here, it simply comes down to personal preference, which I am
sure that everyone can agree that we will never get a consensus on!
Subversion should simply provide options to allow everyone to work how
they feel most comfortable.
It would be great if the trunk of subversion could already do this, but
unfortunately it is still work in progress.
See http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1256 for the
official bug about it.
And search the archives for "Getting Bug 1256 fixed" as there was a
recent (Nov 2005!) discussion about this, which was not the first
discussion on this subject.
-Graeme
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Received on Wed Aug 30 09:49:53 2006