Re: CVS commit with custom date

[Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il>]

On Wednesday 29 November 2006 07:03, Casey T. Deccio wrote:
> On Nov 28, 2006, at 7:20 PM, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 07:11:18PM -0800, Casey T. Deccio wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Is there a way to perform a cvs commit with a custom date, rather
> >> than the current date?  I'm trying to create all the versions of a
> >> certain file retroactively from the archives that have been kept
> >> until now, but I want to be able to maintain (and search by) the
> >> actual (past) modification date.
> >
> > It should be possible, at least if you convert to subversion.  I
> > have a
> > repo that started out as CVS and that I converted over to SVN.  The
> > original commit dates were kept.
>
> Unfortunately I don't have any original commit dates since nothing is
> in a repository yet--just file modification times...
>
> > If all else fails, you can muck with
> > the clock on the server prior to each commit.
>
> That was my backup plan :)
>

Or you can commit them by order and then mess with the diff timestamps on the 
cvs server (in the actual cvs repository).

> Regards,
> Casey