Daniel Shahaf wrote: > C. Michael Pilato wrote: >> Introduce '--ignore-dates' option for 'svnadmin load', > > [...] 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. [...]
Ignoring dates upon load would only *keep* '-r {DATE}' working for the previous history that was in the repo before the load, while *losing* the date history of the newly loaded part. In some cases that might be useful but it's not a solution to the problem in general. - Julian