Branko Čibej wrote on Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 13:43:57 +0200: > On 31.07.2018 13:04, Julian Foad wrote: > > However, this does not only convert old to new format, but could also make > > textual changes to the string if the revprop value is not already > > canonical. Dump should carefully output exactly what is in the repository > > and not gratuitously change it. In retrospect, such a transformation should > > have been done during "svnadmin load" instead of in "dump". > > Agreed, this fits with what "svnadmin load" already does with the > --normalize-props option. But if the timestamp is *not* in the right > format, "load" should fix it. Maybe "except with > --bypass-prop-validation"? Another option that controls "load" behaviour > WRT dates is --ignore-dates, though I can't remember why we introduced that. >
Presumably in order not to break the binary search algorithm underlying the @{DATE} peg revision syntax.