Re: import files preserving timestamps

On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 12:08 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> As a counter argument, there are times when timestamps matter even if
> they aren't absolutely critical. Consider a busy web server farm with
> its code managed in subversion. All of the images, css, js, etc. can be
> set to be cached on the clients until they change, but if the timestamps
> can't be maintained to correspond to actual modifications you'll waste a
> large amount of time and bandwidth resending them unnecessarily and it
> becomes much harder to build optimizations like combining multiple
> js/css files for efficiency if you can't track their modification times.

Good - a concrete example!

So while SVN does not currently offer this option, the mtime can at
least be derived from the repo. A short script, then, can export the
files and reset the mtime as necessary. Perhaps this will not solve
everyone's problem, but it can help in situations such as described
above.

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Mark S. Reibert, Ph.D.
svn_at_reibert.com
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