Subversion developers are very stubborn! (Issue #1256)

 

There is a serious problem with Subversion, that is, it cannot save the creation time of the file/the modification time of each version. issue #1256 describes this problem.

 

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Sometimes it is useful to preserve creation/modification time of afiles under version control. File importing/adding/committing shouldsave these times together with all other file properties and checkoutof this file should restore these times instead of putting current time.  But since some other cases require file's last modification times tobe a time of checkout - best solution will be to have an option forsvn checkout and svn export to preserve file modification times.

------- Additional annotator: Karl Fogel 2003/04/29 14:54:43-0700 -------

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Subversion reply so far: Priority: P3, target milestone: 1.8-consider

 

Indignant users:

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------- Additional annotator: Stefan Sperling 08:58:04-0700 -------

There are a lot of issues that have been labeled as deal breakers which havebeen fixed (one example: issue #3242).I wasn't commenting on the nature or state of this particular issue, but on thegeneralised and bogus claim that the Subversion developer community didn'tlisten to Subversion's users.Such remarks are usually meant to put pressure on developers or patchcontributors to stop whatever they're doing and start working on some particularissue, but that's not what they achieve.And I would of course love to see this issue fixed, just like everyone else.I didn't mean to dismiss the importance of this issue by calling it "pet issue".Maybe I should have said "your favourite issue" or something like that.

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