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Asked: 2026-06-13T05:54:46+00:00

I am using Subversion 1.6.11 (on Unix) and am trying to use svn export

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I am using Subversion 1.6.11 (on Unix) and am trying to use svn export to get the head of the SVN repository in order to later rsync with my webserver.
My problem is that all the exported directories have the current time (= when the svn export was performed) instead of the last modified timestamp of the SVN revision.
All the files on the other hand have the correct timestamp.

  1. How can I get the last modified timestamp of my directories as well?

  2. I read that Subversion 1.7 tweaked the way they handle versioning on directories, but would upgrading really help me in with this problem?

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  1. Editorial Team
    1. Using mtime for dirs is correct behavior from OS side (mtime is time of last modification, yes? Last modification is time, when last file is written inside dir, yes? SVN just do nothing on top of OS I/O)
    2. 1.7 changed only Working Copy storage (WC-NG: one .svn in the WC-root instead of each subdir), thus – you’ll got nothing useful for you with changes

    svn ls -v REPO_PATH or svn ls -v -R REPO_PATH in bad case will show you last commit time for dir, you have only touch exported tree

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