RFC: set timestamps on files created by bzr

[Robert Collins]

On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 12:20 +1100, Andrew Cowie wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 23:04 +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> > If bzr were to set a timestamp on any files it alters
> 
> On branch/pull/checkout, shouldn't it be setting the mtime of each
> individual file to the time that the file last was last changed (ie, the
> time of the write that preceded the commit)?

No; there are many issues with this and build system interactions; the
least of which is clock skew between different machines. A greater
problem is that one can merge a change from another user with a change
to a file you haven't changed, with a datestamp that is still older than
any of the output files produced from it, which confuses most build
systems horribly.

-Rob

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