[darcs-users] Maintaining same file times on Win98

[David Roundy]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 05:54:15PM +0000, libogen . wrote:
> After testing various VCS's to find out which ones were Win9x friendly 
> (that could work with a local repository) I'm now going to do more 
> extensive testing with darcs and CVS (TortoiseCVS).
> 
> I had a single 'main' darcs repository which is local but as I didn't want 
> to work on it directly, I created a new 'sandbox' copy repository using 
> 'darcs get'.
> 
> The files' dates/times though were not the same as the originals but were 
> the date/time that the 'darcs get' command was run.
>
> I'd previously used rsync over ssh to copy my 'main' repository to my 
> webhost account as a backup. Rsync's '-t' parameter preserved my files' 
> times and correctly handled the different UTC offsets on my PC and on my 
> webhost's server (12 hours difference).
> 
> Like rsync, can darcs preserve file times between repositories?

It depends on the method by which files are transfered.  For a local get,
darcs can now preserve file modification times (I just now added that
feature), but when transfering via http or ssh it can't.  I'm not sure
though, when one would want to do with such a feature...
-- 
David Roundy
http://www.abridgegame.org