Does it matter if svn:date isn't in the same order as rev?

[Edmund Horner <ed...@chrysophylax.cjb.net>]

Hi.  I am building a new repository out of the ashes of my old one :-), 
and am taking the opportunity to re-organise things a bit.

My question is, is svn:date used for anything other than letting users 
know when a change happened?  E.g. if I imported lots of stuff into the 
repository at revision 1, and then found some older stuff with several 
revisions that I decided to import as revs 2, 3, 4, etc. would it matter 
if I changed svn:date for those revisions to reflect when I actually 
changed those things?

So I'd have:

rev 1, svn:date = today, when I imported that stuff.
rev 2, svn:date = several years ago when I first began the stuff I'm 
importing now.
rev 3, svn:date = several years ago, a few days later.
etc.

The stuff with the retro-active svn:date would be on different paths 
than the normally imported stuff.

Thanks,
Edmund.



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Re: Does it matter if svn:date isn't in the same order as rev?

[cm...@collab.net]

Edmund Horner <ed...@chrysophylax.cjb.net> writes:

> > svn:date is set revision-wide, typically, irrespective of paths.  It
> > might affect your ability to use the -r{DATE} syntax (versus -rREV)
> > over ranges because sorting by date and sorting by revision number
> > would return two different orderings.  I'd recommand setting svn:date
> > on revision 0 and 1 some something older than revision 2-N.
> 
> Thanks for comprehending the situation :-).
> 
> BTW, I've always wanted to know what revision 0 is--is it an "empty"
> revision?

Yep.  Consists of nothing but an empty root directory.

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Re: Does it matter if svn:date isn't in the same order as rev?

[Edmund Horner <ed...@chrysophylax.cjb.net>]

> svn:date is set revision-wide, typically, irrespective of paths.  It
> might affect your ability to use the -r{DATE} syntax (versus -rREV)
> over ranges because sorting by date and sorting by revision number
> would return two different orderings.  I'd recommand setting svn:date
> on revision 0 and 1 some something older than revision 2-N.

Thanks for comprehending the situation :-).

BTW, I've always wanted to know what revision 0 is--is it an "empty" 
revision?




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Re: Does it matter if svn:date isn't in the same order as rev?

[cm...@collab.net]

Edmund Horner <ed...@chrysophylax.cjb.net> writes:

> Hi.  I am building a new repository out of the ashes of my old one
> :-), and am taking the opportunity to re-organise things a bit.
> 
> My question is, is svn:date used for anything other than letting users
> know when a change happened?  E.g. if I imported lots of stuff into
> the repository at revision 1, and then found some older stuff with
> several revisions that I decided to import as revs 2, 3, 4, etc. would
> it matter if I changed svn:date for those revisions to reflect when I
> actually changed those things?
> 
> So I'd have:
> 
> rev 1, svn:date = today, when I imported that stuff.
> rev 2, svn:date = several years ago when I first began the stuff I'm
> importing now.
> rev 3, svn:date = several years ago, a few days later.
> etc.
> 
> The stuff with the retro-active svn:date would be on different paths
> than the normally imported stuff.

svn:date is set revision-wide, typically, irrespective of paths.  It
might affect your ability to use the -r{DATE} syntax (versus -rREV)
over ranges because sorting by date and sorting by revision number
would return two different orderings.  I'd recommand setting svn:date
on revision 0 and 1 some something older than revision 2-N.

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