[ale] SVN modified timestamps

[Jim Kinney]

The jump from cvs to svn is not near as huge as to git. git is a totally
different beast.

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 5:28 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com>wrote:

> May I inquire as to why you're opting for SVN over Mercurial or even Git
> (not my preference)?
>
>
> On Monday, March 12, 2012, Chris Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>
> wrote:
> > I am primarily a user of CVS and I have decided to migrate to SVN.   So
> > far I've spent many hours doing the migration, but like where this is
> > headed.
> >
> > Most of my repositories are going to be embedded type systems.  More
> > than just one package.  I ran into a problem with modified timestamps
> > that does not occur with CVS since it will store these.  I've come up
> > with a solution and want to vet it out for feasibility.
> >
> > Since my tree includes many packages I do _NOT*_ ever want configure to
> > be executed in those directories.  When I did my first migration test
> > yesterday I noticed that configure was being executed for each package
> > on a fresh build.  Not what I want.  Being a noob with SVN it took me a
> > while to determine that SVN does not store file time attributes.
> >
> > I hacked out a solution.
> >
> > I wrote a perl program to store atime and mtime of all files in the tree
> > before the import.  I then created some perl utilities to use this
> > information.  The intention is that after I execute a svn checkout I
> > then execute the fix_timestamps.pl utility.  It reads a file of stored
> > attributes and then uses utime(2) to put those attributes back.  The
> > only downside of this is remembering to do a diff and update on the
> > TIMESTAMPS file when doing a svn ci.  It would not hurt if I forgot
> > since I'm only storing the source and the whole tree would need to be
> > rebuilt anyway.
> >
> > This is the first solution I've came up with.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >
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