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