RE: Re: checkout by date gives wrong version of repo

That doesn't fit, because those old revs do have an svn:date property.

It does look like those old ones were originally in CVS and came to Subversion via cvs2svn. But the usual revprops (svn:author, svn:date, svn:log) are present. I wonder if there's something else odd about the way cvs2svn generates its output that accounts for the difference.

        paul

-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Bakke [mailto:steven.bakke_at_amd.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 3:27 PM
To: Christian Bird
Cc: users_at_subversion.tigris.org
Subject: Re: checkout by date gives wrong version of repo

On Oct 1, 2008, at 2:03 PM, Christian Bird wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to study the evolution of ant and I'm doing checkouts of
> ant's svn repo in three month increments. I have been checking out
> with:
>
> svn co --revision {2008-7-1}
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk/ foobar
>
> For appropriate dates. This seems to work until I get before
> 2006-1-1. If I give it any date prior to that, I get the repo as of
> that date. I know by browsing their repo online, that changes were
> being made prior to that.
> Also, I can browse the online ant repo and find the revision closest
> to a date I want and check it out by revision number and things work
> correctly. So if I do
>

If I understand correctly, when you fetch something based upon the
date, it is actually relying on an 'svn:date' property. It is
possible that before some point in time, this property is missing for
all of those revisions.
  

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