Re: Subversion Problem - How to save file modify time?

Ryan Schmidt wrote:

[...]

>> * When no version control is used, then it's clear file timestamps are
>> critical. They're the only indication of a file's "version". But
>> once the files are placed into version control, what's the point of
>> tracking the original datestamps? Version control is now providing
>> much more detailed tracking of versions and dates. It's solving the
>> problem is a much more thorough way.
>
>When importing an existing project, I consider it important to know
>when those files were last modified. I may be importing the project
>today, but maybe I developed over a period of months last year. I'd
>like that metadata preserved.

Ack. Therefore I made a small perl script which commits one file at a
time, setting the commit time property to the file mtime. It should be
somewhere in the archives of this list.

[...]

>Also, not all repositories contain code. I have a second repository
>for musical compositions, for example.

This kind of data is one of the reasons I vote strongly for versioning
the modification time.

Oliver

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Received on 2008-07-14 11:55:30 CEST