On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 08:20:00PM -0700, Richard Hipp wrote:
> On 4/19/17, Martin Irvine <martin_irv...@bigpond.com.au> 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 "make" in order to build that
> older version, but if the timestamps are some point in the past, then
> that make will not work.

CVS distinguishes between initial checkout and update.  For the former,
it will use the commit time of each revision as mtime, for the latter it
will use the current time. That works well enough.

Joerg
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