Re: [Monotone-devel] "Wrong" (current time) creation date after checkout

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

In message <address@hidden> on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 21:53:14 +0200, Thomas Haas 
<address@hidden> said:

mt> I am using motone 0.27 Cygwin on Windows XP.
mt> 
mt> The creation date (ls -l) on files checked out (using mtn checkout
mt> or mtn revert) is set to the current time. My expectation is the
mt> creation date on files being the same after checkout (or revert)
mt> as during commit.

Why is that something to worry about?  A VCS is not a backup facility,
even though it produces exact (enough) copies of file names and
contents.

mt> What is the rational of this behavior? Is there a way to restore
mt> the original date of the file (mtn attr)?

Personally, I really don't give a damn, but that's because I mostly VC
source code, and the only impact time has on that is what gets
recompiled by make, and since whatever gets updated gets a new
timestamp, I'm not worried that those files don't get recompiled.  I
*would* be worried if I had to deal with someone else's time, possibly
even faulty time since it's the client that creates the date certs.

Cheers,
Richard

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