per-file-timestamps

[Michael Talbot-Wilson]

On Mon, 8 Oct 2012, Andrew Bennetts wrote:
> Michael Talbot-Wilson wrote:
>> I thought --per-file-timestamps would export with the existing
>> mtimes.  I thought and think that if a file has not been m'ed its mtime
>> should not change.
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> It doesn't have that capability builtin.  It would be possible to write
> a plugin to record and use that information (just like etckeeper does
> with file permissions).

Thanks for your reply.  Will look at doing that.