Preserving timestamps

[Miguel Freitas]

Hi Matt,

On 8/6/07, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
> > My question is, i know preserving mtimes is bad in general, but is it
> > possible to implement this feature for a specific set of files in a
> > repository?
>
> You should be able to do it with a pair of hooks. The precommit hook
> stores the relevant filenames and dates in a file to be committed
> (".mytimestamps", perhaps), the update hook reads the file and applies
> the dates to the listed files.

I see. This is about the same approach i've discussed with my coworkers...

Two more questions, before i start doing anything.

By any chance, do any of the hg hackers around would like implementing
this extension? it might be fun ;-)

If not, and if we implement this thing ourselves, would you like a
patch to include in hg distribution or something?

Thanks for the help. And btw, i used to use cvs... mercurial rocks ;-)

Miguel