Re: [fossil-users] Can Fossil preserve file timestamps when opening a repository ?

2017-04-19 Thread Richard Hipp
On 4/19/17, Martin Irvine wrote: > I would prefer that Fossil preserved the date and time stamp that the file > had when it was most recently committed. > That is an unusual preference, because most people when they do fossil update some-older-verion expect afterwards to be able to type "ma

Re: [fossil-users] Can Fossil preserve file timestamps when opening a repository ?

2017-04-19 Thread Martin Gagnon
It has been discuss a few times before. I think here is a good summary about why it is like this now: http://www.mail-archive.com/fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org/msg15013.html -- Martin G. Le mer. 19 avr. 2017 à 19:41, Martin Irvine a écrit : > Hi, > > This seems a pretty basic question but

[fossil-users] Can Fossil preserve file timestamps when opening a repository ?

2017-04-19 Thread Martin Irvine
Hi, This seems a pretty basic question but I can't seem to find an answer or explanation online... I am a fairly new Fossil user and I am surprised that when I open a repositiory (on Windows 7) all the extracted files seem to have their timestamp set to the date and time at which they were ext

Re: [fossil-users] Incomplete patch with idea for enhancement

2017-04-19 Thread Ron W
On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 8:00 AM, wrote: > > Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 23:52:33 -0600 > From: Warren Young > Subject: Re: [fossil-users] Incomplete patch with idea for enhancement > > The only open question in my mind is what to do on Windows? IIS must have > such a DB, but how does a program acces

Re: [fossil-users] Incomplete patch with idea for enhancement

2017-04-19 Thread The Tick
On 4/19/2017 12:52 AM, Warren Young wrote: I’d call your patch “close enough.” It’s only got a 1 in 4 billion chance of matching something incorrectly for a uniform probability distribution, and a much smaller chance than that in practice given the bias towards text file types in Fossil repos