[fossil-users] File dates

2011-03-28 Thread Volodya Savastiouk
I've raised this issue before with little success, although a few people responded in support of the idea. The issue is the file dates being always today's date whenever one downloads a copy from the repository or simply opens a local copy. I'd really like to either see the file dates being

Re: [fossil-users] File dates

2011-03-28 Thread Ron Aaron
On 03/28/2011 08:17 PM, Volodya Savastiouk wrote: Does anybody else feel this is a useful feature/option? I do, yes. thanks for fossil, I love it! Me too! ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org

Re: [fossil-users] File dates

2011-03-28 Thread Bill Burdick
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Volodya Savastiouk volo...@io3.ca wrote: I've raised this issue before with little success, although a few people responded in support of the idea. The issue is the file dates being always today's date whenever one downloads a copy from the repository or

Re: [fossil-users] File dates

2011-03-28 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 02:17:10PM -0400, Volodya Savastiouk wrote: The issue is the file dates being always today's date whenever one downloads a copy from the repository or simply opens a local copy. This was discussed a while ago and I think the agreement was: (1) Initial open may use the

Re: [fossil-users] File dates

2011-03-28 Thread Volodya Savastiouk
On 2:59 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 02:17:10PM -0400, Volodya Savastiouk wrote: The issue is the file dates being always today's date whenever one downloads a copy from the repository or simply opens a local copy. This was discussed a while ago and I think the

Re: [fossil-users] File dates

2011-03-28 Thread Mike Meyer
On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:17:10 -0400 Volodya Savastiouk volo...@io3.ca wrote: I've raised this issue before with little success, although a few people responde The issue is the file dates being always today's date whenever one downloads a copy from the repository or simply opens a local

Re: [fossil-users] File dates

2011-03-28 Thread Volodya Savastiouk
On 2:59 PM, Mike Meyer wrote: As noted, this breaks build systems that compare file dates to see if a file needs to be recompiled. As such, this feature is dangerous. mike I appreciate that Mike. I'm thinking of having the update information being part of the filename on request (an