Unfortunately, Subversion does not yet support the storage of
timestamps....
It is a well documented bug / feature request:
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1256
There are a couple of work arounds (That I think are referenced from the
bug entry) of which the most popular is to wrap the commits with scripts
to store the last modified timestamp as a versioned property, however I
do not believe that anyone has ever posted their commit and update
scripts to this mailing list, perhaps someone would be able to?
HTH,
Graeme
-----Original Message-----
From: George Reeke [mailto:reeke_at_mail.rockefeller.edu]
Sent: 10 March 2008 16:13
To: users_at_subversion.tigris.org
Subject: File time stamps on initial import
Hello,
I am new to svn, so I'd appreciate a pointer to the answer if this is a
well known problem. I just installed subversion 1.4.6 on my RedHat EL 4
system. I read the book. I made a repository with svnadmin create. I
imported my existing project into it with svn import (using the svn
server and the FSFS store). I did the initial checkout with svn
checkout.
To my horror, the time stamps on all my files were updated to the time
when I did the import. I realize it's not really important any more
what those time stamps were, except this project has been going on for
many years and I would like to be able to see when I last worked on a
particular file.
So: Right now, while it's not too late to delete the whole repository
and start over with another copy of my project, can someone tell me how
to import a project into a repository and keep the original time stamps?
When I make changes and commit them, then of course the time stamps
should be updated accordingly.
Thanks,
George Reeke
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