C. Michael Pilato wrote on Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 17:13:12 -0500:
> Didn't want to commit this directly just yet, given my somewhat
> disconnected attention level in the project as of late. Mostly looking
> for general feedback on the idea of the "sounds useful if it works" or
> "you *really* don't want to go there" variety, but deeper review is of
> course welcome, too.
>
> Log message:
>
> {{{
> Introduce '--ignore-dates' option for 'svnadmin load', which causes
> the load process to ignore the revision datestamps found in the
> dumpstream. This allows folks to more easily use dumpfiles as
> repository templates which appear (datestamp-wise) as normal commits
> would.
In the case of template repositories, the most important thing is
resetting the UUID (and we have 'load --ignore-uuid'). Changing the
date values of the "mkdir trunk"? I don't know that I would care either
way about what they were. Particularly if the log message of the
template's final commit explained what was going on.
However, 'load --ignore-dates' has another use-case: preventing the
"-r {DATE} doesn't work as intended" syndrome when loading a project's
history into an existing repository. In that scenario, it might be
useful to preserve the original date values (and we already have an
SVN_PROP_REVISION_ORIG_DATE macro defined).
Daniel
(the last sentence might be an instance of feature creep)
