Philip Martin wrote: > [...] Both BDB and FSFS set the date on the txn when the txn is > created. This was introduced so that admins could look at the date and > get the txn creation date which is useful when deciding whether or not > to delete old txns. The BDB bug is that this setting should not be > classed as an explicit setting by the client. > > [...] > > Using svn:date to store txn creation date doesnt't work so well now that > we allow clients to set svn:date. It might have been better if the txn > creation date was stored in a separate txn property that was deleted on > commit. If we were to do that then we would need to expose the internal > txn value, which would mean svn_fs_txn_prop/proplist could not hide all > internal txn props.
Or svn_fs_txn_prop/proplist *could* hide all internal txn props, and we could add another API for svnadmin to view the txn-creation date. - Julian
