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

From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Date: Jun 11, 2016, 01:39 UTC
Message-ID: <20160611013948.GA5793@dcvr.yhbt.net>
In-Reply-To: <87ziqx5z9h.fsf@free.fr>

Peter Münster <pmlists@free.fr> wrote:

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> On Tue, Jun 07 2016, Eric Wong wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Not the svn-log, only the git-log.

The git log after dcommit is tied to the SVN log, so git-svn can only reflect changes which appear in SVN.

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> > 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 :)
> 
> No, sorry. I don't care about the svn-log.

Unfortunately, you would have to care about svn log as long as SVN exists in your workflow and you need to interact with SVN users.

git svn tries hard to work transparently and as close to the behavior of the upstream SVN repo as possible.