Import / Adding Properties

[tr...@clayst.com]

I'm still stuck on setting timestamps on my files.

This time I tried rebuilding my repository, creating a directory of the 
versioned files only, and importing from there with svn import.  So far 
so good, it did exactly what I'd expect.

Now, I would like to attach properties to these files which contain 
their current timestamps.  That way when I check them out I can 
retreive those and touch the files.

However, I cannot set properties in the repository, only in a WC 
(right?).  But if I do a checkout that will set all the timestamps in 
the new WC to the time of checkout, which loses exactly the data I 
wanted to retain.

It appears I have to import from a dummy directory, check out a WC to 
another directory, copy the files from the dummy directory over top of 
the WC to get back the old timestamps, then do propsets to attach the 
timestamps to the files, and do a commit to get the timestamps into the 
repository.

Why can't I add properties directly to files in the repository?

Also, why is the dance with svn import / svn checkout necessary?  Why 
isn't there a way to create a WC during or just after the import 
process, creating the admin information (.svn) but not touching the 
files?  To me this mirrors a perfectly normal use case, simply putting 
an existing directory under version control.

I'm curious partly because I want to know if the things I'm trying to 
do -- however normal they seem to me -- are somehow outside the realm 
of what Subversion is designed for, or if they are just things no one 
has asked for or no one has managed to put in yet.

Thanks,

--
Tom




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