[darcs-users] Preserving timestamps etc

Andrew Pimlott andrew at pimlott.net
Thu Sep 30 23:48:00 UTC 2004


On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 07:09:49AM -0400, David Roundy wrote:
> file-data-hook-add timestamp
>  read: find "$1" -printf "%TY%Tm%Td%TH%TM.%TS\n" -maxdepth 0

This is a fine design in principle, but it would make operations like
whatsnew a bit heavy.  It's probably be orders of magnitude faster to do
this in darcs itself.  If you were clever, you might create a Haskell
plug-in interface for getting/setting file metadata....

Andrew




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