On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Daniel Cuaron <dcua...@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote:

> First can I say great software.  To get familiar with fossil's ui I just
> created a dummy checkout and started poking around.  I added a couple
> tags... removed them... added branches ... changed their names.  I
> noticed that once a tag was removed from a check-in a new date property
> was displayed.  If I then removed the date property bad things happened
> to the timeline and tags menu, meaning that if I then clicked on those
> they were just blank.
>
> My question is when would you ever have need to manually modify the date
> property


Sometimes people do a "fossil commit" with their system clock all messed up
and hence a timestamp on the (immutable) checkin that is wildly at odds with
reality, and it is important to be able to fix that problem.



> and if you there wouldn't be such a reason why are we allowed
> to modify it or delete it.   I think my history was still there it just
> wasn't displayable via the ui.
>
> Thanks,
> dan
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