Re: Keeping last-modified dates

On Aug 30, 2006, at 16:06, Marko Kaening wrote:

>> It's not stored in the repository, so a new checkout will have a
>> different
>> date, but that's not what he was talking about.
>
> Sorry, there are different strings of discussion going on... Looks
> like I
> mixed something up. I thought that importing a set of files will
> preserve
> its timestamp in the sense that on a new checkout you'd get these
> set in
> you local working copy. This is certainly not the case, neither
> when using
> add, nor with import, right?!

Right. Subversion does not preserve timestamps. That's the feature
request this whole discussion is about. If you import a project, then
the only timestamp Subversion stores is the timestamp when you
imported, and that's stored in the resulting revision's svn:date
property.

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Received on Wed Aug 30 17:21:46 2006