# How to preserve date with svn check-out?
**URL:** https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/how-to-preserve-date-with-svn-check-out/1580
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**Created:** [August 31, 2010, 5:37am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/how-to-preserve-date-with-svn-check-out/1580 "2010-08-31T05:37:20Z")
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### Author:  [@deleted\_user](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/deleted_user)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2010, 5:37am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/how-to-preserve-date-with-svn-check-out/1580/1 "2010-08-31T05:37:20Z")
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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### Author:  [@Vincent](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/Vincent)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2010, 12:31pm UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/how-to-preserve-date-with-svn-check-out/1580/2 "2010-09-01T12:31:30Z")
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](http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.ref.svn.c.checkout.html)
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### Author:  [@deleted\_user](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/deleted_user)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2010, 1:22am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/how-to-preserve-date-with-svn-check-out/1580/3 "2010-09-01T01:22:00Z")
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](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2171939/how-can-i-keep-original-file-timestamp-on-subversion)
Thanks for the response, Vincent.
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### Author:  [@deleted\_user](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/deleted_user)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2010, 3:18am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/how-to-preserve-date-with-svn-check-out/1580/4 "2010-09-08T03:18:21Z")
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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### Author:  [@Vincent](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/Vincent)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2010, 10:20am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/how-to-preserve-date-with-svn-check-out/1580/5 "2010-09-08T10:20:20Z")
Hi Tom
FB uses svn.exe, so if svn.exe supports that flag then it should work from FB.