Re: import files preserving timestamps

From: "Erik Huelsmann" Sent: Sat, June 07, 2008 2:25 AM
> On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> On Jun 7, 2008, at 00:22, Mark Reibert wrote:
>>
>>> Perhaps there is some other rationale for preserving timestamps with
>>> which I am not familiar.
>>
>> It is not for the version control system to decide what metadata
>> about my files is expendable.
>
> But a portable version control system may also not be in the position
> to version your meta data sanely between operating systems: [...]

I'd think more OSs support file timestamps than symlinks.
It would be up to the particular client to know its platform, and act as
sanely as possible within its limitations.

Liviu

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