Re: What happens when revision numbers are not chronological?

On Jan 30, 2012, at 10:06, Alexander Shenkin wrote:

> I've used an import script to import two bunches of files in the same
> repository. This import script sets the commit time of each file
> (svn:date property) to the original modified-time of the file. So, when
> I added the second batch of files, the dates associated with the
> revision numbers are no longer chronological. That is, rev 5 might have
> an svn:date of 1/1/2011, and rev 6 might have an svn:date of 1/1/2010
> for example.
>
> I'm not planning on doing anything overly complex with svn - i probably
> won't be branching or merging. However, I would like to be a little
> more educated about the risks that I am running. Anyone know?

You will not be able to use the date syntax to specify revisions. For example:

svn log -r '{2012-01-01}:{2012-01-11}'

This is not guaranteed to return sensible results if your revisions are not in ascending chronological order. I'm not sure what it will do, but I wouldn't be surprised if it returned revisions outside the requested range, and/or did not return the revisions that are in the requested range. If I remember correctly, the Subversion repository of the Apache Software Foundation has non-chronological revisions, so you could do some tests against their repository if you're curious.

But that's the only problem I know of.
Received on 2012-01-30 19:14:03 CET