> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan Schmidt [mailto:subversion-2006c@ryandesign.com]
> Sent: 30 August 2006 09:01
> To: Duncan Murdoch
> Cc: Steve Fairhead; users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: Keeping last-modified dates
>
> On Aug 30, 2006, at 02:13, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>
> > On 8/29/2006 6:51 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> >
> >> 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.
> >
> > Wouldn't my hypothetical script be able to add the property after
> > importing? As far as I know, an import doesn't touch the files.
> > Now, if you could do a substitution of a keyword %FILEMODDATE% in
> > an auto-prop, this would be easy.
>
> Oh, I see. You're thinking of a versioned property, like what's used
> in the text-time branch. Yes, if you wrapped both commit/import and
> update/checkout to do the right thing in either direction, it sounds
> like that could work.
>
> I was thinking of an unversioned property, specifically the svn:date
> property of the revision, of which there's of course just one
> for the
> entire revision. If you check in (or import) multiple files in a
> single revision, they all have the same svn:date.
Surly another good approach would be to bring the text-time branch in
line with the latest source, check that it still works as required (See
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1256) and then
incorporate it into the trunk!
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