Craig McQueen <craig.mcqueen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Eric Wong wrote: > > Craig McQueen <craig.mcqueen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Apparently SVN revisions can have an "svn:original-date" property, which > > would be good to set on dcommit, to preserve the timestamp from the git > > repository. > > > > > > > > https://subversion.apache.org/docs/api/1.7/group__svn__props__revision > > > __props.html#ga8f17351dd056149da9cb490f1daf4018 > > > > Any idea if which versions of SVN it's supported in and how recent the > > feature is? > > I see discussion about it in 2003, so I guess it's been there right from 1.0.0. > > > Perhaps we can enable it everywhere, and maybe only old clients won't > > understand it, but won't fail; and we could start using it as the author date > > with "git svn fetch". > > Using it for author date sounds sensible. OK, I'd be inclined to accept a patch + tests for that; my plate might be full with non-git stuff until April. > > OTOH, that would break the (perhaps unofficial) independently-created-git- > > svn-mirrors-should-have-same-oids-by-default > > rule when people run different versions of git, so maybe it could be an > > option... > > Hmm, good question. Maybe it should be an option, though I > hope it would be enabled by default (since the feature would > be more metadata-preserving, which is a good thing), with an > option to disable it to allow backwards compatibility with > people running an older version of git. That's my opinion > anyway, and I realise my opinion is not necessarily > well-informed regarding all considerations. Given git-svn behavior hasn't changed much in over a decade, I'd rather be conservative with regards to changing any existing behavior. We could offer one warning about it to inform users about it if original-date is seen, however. > Note, I'm unclear as to whether Subversion is willing to store > timezone information in svn:original-date. But I guess having > git author date correspond to svn:original-date is an > improvement for preserving more metadata, even if the timezone > is lost in the process. Can you find any examples of it in the wild? I prefer having real-world examples to look at. Thanks.