Philip Martin wrote on Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 13:27:09 +0000: > Daniel Shahaf <danie...@elego.de> writes: > > > Specifically, the server code special-cases svn:author and svn:date --- > > an administrator would have to use a pre-commit hook (or patch the > > server) to avoid those being set from the authentication info and system > > clock. > > - for RA access (a network client like svn) the server sets both > svn:author and svn:date, the client has no control. > > - for FS access (a filesystem client like svnadmin) the server sets > svn:date and the client controls svn:author. > > svnadmin load is not as efficient as it could be as it has to do a > revprop change after each commit to set svn:date.
And replay() users (svnrdump/svnsync) need to set both date and author.