Re: import files preserving timestamps

On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 03:12 -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> The original file mtimes cannot be derived from the repo because the
> repo does not store them in the first place. It only stores the
> commit time. The original mtimes are permanently lost (unless you use
> a special script to do the import / commit which stores the original
> mtimes in custom file properties, and use another special script to
> check out / update / export which does the reverse and sets the
> mtimes based on those properties).

Fair enough.

By the way, what VC systems do store mtime (and not just commit time)?

> You can instruct Subversion to set mtimes of checked out / updated /
> exported files to the commit time (instead of to "now") by adding
> "use-commit-times yes" to your client's Subversion config file. But
> that doesn't help the request of this thread (and the dozens before
> it) which is to preserve the original mtime.

Yeah, I often forget about this ... due to my lack of need for it.

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