Preserve original filename on initial import?

[Frank LaRosa <fr...@franklarosa.com>]

Hi,

I imported an old web application project that had never been under
source control before. All of the files ended up with today's date in
the repository, rather than the original file dates.

Is there a way to preserve the original date when importing?

Losing the dates causes some real problems. For example, I have an FTP
task that sends the newest files from the document root to the server,
but now it thinks all the files are new and wants to spend hours
re-uploading them all. The web application has a process that builds
thumbnails out of full-sized images, and it too suddenly sees all the
images as new, and therefore thinks it has to spend hours computing new
thumbnails for all of them.

I read something about a way to manually change the date on one file
but I have many thousands of files so this won't work for me.

Thanks.

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Re: Preserve original file date and time on initial import?

[Frank LaRosa <fr...@franklarosa.com>]

Thanks, but this really doesn't seem to be what I want. I also don't
have time to figure out how to make my own build of Subversion and
maintain it into the future -- I've got other projects that need my
attention.

I've heard a lot of good things about Subversion so it's really
disappointing to find that it gets such a trivial thing so wrong on the
first day I try to use it.

Maybe this is why people are still willing to pay $800/user for
Perforce?

Frank

--- Dirk Schenkewitz <sc...@docomolab-euro.com> wrote:

> Hi Frank,
> 
> just a fast shot, before someone with better knowledge gives
> you a more detailed answer - so you already know that there's
> hope ;-) - Please search the list or the archives for this
> subject:
> 
> "[PATCH] meta-data-versioning for 1.2.0rc2"
> 
> Because Philip Marek's meta-data-versioning branch is most likely
> what you want.
> 
> Or/and search the list/archives for "mod time" to find more info.
> 
> Have fun
>    Dirk
> 
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Re: Preserve original file date and time on initial import?

[Dirk Schenkewitz <sc...@docomolab-euro.com>]

Hi Frank,

just a fast shot, before someone with better knowledge gives
you a more detailed answer - so you already know that there's
hope ;-) - Please search the list or the archives for this
subject:

"[PATCH] meta-data-versioning for 1.2.0rc2"

Because Philip Marek's meta-data-versioning branch is most likely
what you want.

Or/and search the list/archives for "mod time" to find more info.

Have fun
   Dirk

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