thanks all for your helpful replies.
On 1/30/2012 1:13 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Jan 30, 2012, at 10:06, Alexander Shenkin wrote:
>
>> I've used an import script to import two bunches of files in the same
>> repository. This import script sets the commit time of each file
>> (svn:date property) to the original modified-time of the file. So, when
>> I added the second batch of files, the dates associated with the
>> revision numbers are no longer chronological. That is, rev 5 might have
>> an svn:date of 1/1/2011, and rev 6 might have an svn:date of 1/1/2010
>> for example.
>>
>> I'm not planning on doing anything overly complex with svn - i probably
>> won't be branching or merging. However, I would like to be a little
>> more educated about the risks that I am running. Anyone know?
> You will not be able to use the date syntax to specify revisions. For example:
>
> svn log -r '{2012-01-01}:{2012-01-11}'
>
> This is not guaranteed to return sensible results if your revisions are not
> in ascending chronological order. I'm not sure what it will do, but I
> wouldn't be surprised if it returned revisions outside the requested range,
> and/or did not return the revisions that are in the requested range. If I
> remember correctly, the Subversion repository of the Apache Software
> Foundation has non-chronological revisions, so you could do some tests
> against their repository if you're curious.
>
> But that's the only problem I know of.
>
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