How to preserve date with svn check-out?

FinalBuilder Discussion
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How can we preserve the svn date of a file when we check it out during a build?

Is there a configuration file or command line switch?

TIA

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Hi Tom

As far as I can tell svn doesn’t provide any options for this :

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.ref.svn.c.checkout.html

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I'm not familiar with svn. We use ssvn as our interface to it. And it somehow maintains the commit date of each file. I assumed that svn would handle that too.

It's very hard for me to believe that the masses of developers who use svn are stuck with the local time-date stamp of a file being changed when a copy is made to the local drive...

Hopefully, someone else here will have some additional information on this.

See this StackOverflow thread: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/...subversion

Thanks for the response, Vincent.

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I'm told that adding the line

use-commit-times=yes

to the [miscellany] section of .subversion/config will set local files from a respository to their commit times.

However, there are some 3rd party svn tools that ignore this flag (like Smart SVN, for example, which provides a different way of setting this flag.)

I wanted to ask if anyone can confirm that FB will act on this flag in the config file rather than ignoring it?

TIA

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Hi Tom

FB uses svn.exe, so if svn.exe supports that flag then it should work from FB.