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

[Timothy Brownawell]

On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 21:53 +0200, Thomas Haas wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I am using motone 0.27 Cygwin on Windows XP.
> 
> The creation date (ls -l) on files checked out (using mtn checkout or
> mtn revert) is set to the current time. My expectation is the creation
> date on files being the same after checkout (or revert) as during commit.
> 
> What is the rational of this behavior? Is there a way to restore the
> original date of the file (mtn attr)?

Monotone doesn't remember file times. I don't think our attribute
handling is suiatble to add this yet, but that shouldn't be too hard to
fix (need a update_attributes hook to go with the
{init,apply}_attributes hooks we already have).

Tim