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

On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 08:38 +0200, Oliver Betz wrote:
> John Aldridge wrote:
>
> >Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> >I'm actually slightly surprised that the people using subversion for
> >storing photographs aren't more interested in the creation date than the
> >last modified data, for example.
>
> mtime is the default used by nearly everything, e.g. ls, the Windows
> explorer, file managers, picture viewers etc.

Moreover, there is no such thing as creation time (at least in Linux - I
don't know about Windows).

bash$ touch foo ; stat foo ; sleep 10 ; chmod 444 foo ; stat foo
  File: `foo'
  Size: 0 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular
empty file
Device: fd00h/64768d Inode: 692575 Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 5000/ mark) Gid: ( 100/ users)
Access: 2008-07-17 00:53:59.000000000 -0700
Modify: 2008-07-17 00:53:59.000000000 -0700
Change: 2008-07-17 00:53:59.000000000 -0700
  File: `foo'
  Size: 0 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular
empty file
Device: fd00h/64768d Inode: 692575 Links: 1
Access: (0444/-r--r--r--) Uid: ( 5000/ mark) Gid: ( 100/ users)
Access: 2008-07-17 00:53:59.000000000 -0700
Modify: 2008-07-17 00:53:59.000000000 -0700
Change: 2008-07-17 00:54:09.000000000 -0700

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