Re: feature request: git svn dommit --preserve-timestamps

From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Date: Jun 7, 2016, 00:09 UTC
Message-ID: <20160607000902.GA4445@dcvr.yhbt.net>
In-Reply-To: <87a8iy6s4e.fsf@free.fr>

Peter Münster <pmlists@free.fr> wrote:

> It would be nice, if timestamps could be preserved when rewriting the
> git-log.

Unfortunately, last I checked (a long time ago!), explicitly setting revprops might require SVN administrators to enable the feature for the repo.

It's been a while and I'm not up-to-date with the latest SVN. Maybe there's a newer/easier way you could give us details about :)

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> Use case: I often make a dcommit after several days of development
> (20 or 30 commits), because
> - the users of the svn-server don't need it more often;
> - and for the dcommit I need a VPN-connection to a server, that is not
>   always available.
> 
> Today, after a dcommit, it's no more possible to match a special commit
> by time and date (for example the time of some email exchange).

For now, I suggest including the date in the message body itself to record when it was written (perhaps using git-interpret-trailers to enforce, although I'm not familiar with that, either).