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.
