[jira] [Commented] (SVN-1256) Ability to preserve last modification time (mtime) of files under version control

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Julian Foad commented on SVN-1256:
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Thanks for your input, [~chlimouj].

I'm sure you're well aware that FOSS is written by whoever wants to write it. What might not be so obvious is that there is NO team of developers waiting to work on developments to Subversion, not even one. The audience reading these comments, and indeed the Apache Subversion project members, are simply individuals like yourself and myself with other jobs or occupations, mostly just watching with interest. A very few of us sometimes develop bits that we care about, for fun or for our employer's needs.

As you can see, in the past some people have put effort into writing up designs and wrappers and patches for this issue. Nothing further will happen until someone steps up to "own" it and complete it. Will you be the one, or will you hire someone to do so? Please [come to the dev@ email list or #svn-dev IRC/Matrix channel|http://subversion.apache.org/contributing.html] and start hacking the code to your liking and I would be glad to guide you, and I'm sure others would too.

In FOSS anything's possible. If you want it so, make it so.

> Ability to preserve last modification time (mtime) of files under version control
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SVN-1256
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SVN-1256
>             Project: Subversion
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>    Affects Versions: all
>            Reporter: Subversion Importer
>            Priority: Major
>              Labels: api, patch
>             Fix For: 1.10-consider
>
>         Attachments: 1_text-time.patch
>
>
> {noformat:nopanel=true}
> Sometimes it is useful to preserve creation/modification time of a
> files under version control. File importing/adding/committing should
> save these times together with all other file properties and checkout
> of this file should restore these times instead of putting current time. 
>  But since some other cases require file's last modification times to
> be a time of checkout - best solution will be to have an option for
> svn checkout and svn export to preserve file modification times.
> {noformat}
> Original issue reported by *flying*



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