Hi Jon, Thanks a bunch, your information is very useful for me!
Best, Arthur On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Jon Foster <jon.fos...@cabot.co.uk> wrote: > Hi, > > Arthur Chan wrote: > > I am requesting SVN checkin time from my previous company. > ... > > However, they told me that SVN only store logs for 3 months > > by default so that all my commit time were lost. > > There are 2 different places you can get "commit time" information. > > First, there are the logs from Subversion. These are reliable > (no-one apart from the system administrator could forge them). They > are optional - you don't have to generate them. If you do generate > them, then it's up to you to decide how long to store them for. They > can log all activity, including commits, checkouts, and updates. > > I suspect the logs are what your company is talking about, and it's > quite plausible for them to be stored for only 3 months. > > Secondly, there is the "svn:date" revision property in the > repository. These may or may not be reliable, depending on whether > your repository has a "pre-revprop-change" hook that allows them to > be changed. (By default, they cannot be forged by anyone other than > the system administrator. But if your system administrator > installs a "pre-revprop-change" hook that allows it, then any > committer can change them to any value, without leaving an audit > trail). They are generated automatically by Subversion, you can't > (easily) turn them off. Subversion will store them forever (or > until someone changes or deletes them). These only tell you the > commit time, they won't tell you about checkouts or updates. > > Kind regards, > > Jon > > -- > (Please direct all replies to the mailing list) > > > ********************************************************************** > This email and its attachments may be confidential and are intended solely > for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any views or opinions > expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent > those of Cabot Communications Ltd. > > If you are not the intended recipient of this email and its attachments, > you must take no action based upon them, nor must you copy or show them to > anyone. > > Cabot Communications Limited > Verona House, Filwood Road, Bristol BS16 3RY, UK > +44 (0) 1179584232 > > Co. Registered in England number 02817269 > > Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in > error. > > ********************************************************************** > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. > For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email > ______________________________________________________________________ >
