Activity log for bug #245170

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2008-07-03 11:44:51 Nosto Raksi bug added bug
2008-11-03 21:15:13 Neal McBurnett bzr: status New Confirmed
2008-11-03 21:15:13 Neal McBurnett bzr: statusexplanation I can confirm this on ubuntu linux hardy, bzr 1.3.1 using the bzr branch command. It is a problem for the project I'm developing, because I want to deliver test files to the end user, and the file modification times of the test files are important to the functioning of the program - it processes them chronologically. Everything else in my development and packaging toolchain seems to preserve file modification times (setuptools, tar, dpkg, etc), so bzr is the weak link in the chain, when I or others build a distribution from a branch other than my original trunk directory. I guess I have to either always distribute from the original directory (not great for distributed development, and more risk of including unwanted files or changes) or deliver the files inside a zip archive or the like, and unpack them at install time. Support for preserving file metadata like create and modification times would be useful in many circumstances. Modification times are far more portable and far less problematic than the permission and ownership metadata discussed in https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/67589
2008-11-03 21:19:19 Martin Pool bzr: importance Undecided Wishlist
2008-11-03 21:19:19 Martin Pool bzr: statusexplanation I can confirm this on ubuntu linux hardy, bzr 1.3.1 using the bzr branch command. It is a problem for the project I'm developing, because I want to deliver test files to the end user, and the file modification times of the test files are important to the functioning of the program - it processes them chronologically. Everything else in my development and packaging toolchain seems to preserve file modification times (setuptools, tar, dpkg, etc), so bzr is the weak link in the chain, when I or others build a distribution from a branch other than my original trunk directory. I guess I have to either always distribute from the original directory (not great for distributed development, and more risk of including unwanted files or changes) or deliver the files inside a zip archive or the like, and unpack them at install time. Support for preserving file metadata like create and modification times would be useful in many circumstances. Modification times are far more portable and far less problematic than the permission and ownership metadata discussed in https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/67589
2010-03-21 23:47:42 Martin Pool summary file modification time not preserved by checkout want to store file's modification time during commit
2010-11-23 17:32:37 Levi Purvis bug added subscriber Levi Purvis
2011-01-31 15:52:59 Tim Halvorsen bug added subscriber Tim Halvorsen
2017-06-23 00:49:34 Jelmer Vernooij tags new-format
2017-06-23 00:49:40 Jelmer Vernooij bug task added brz
2017-06-23 00:50:57 Jelmer Vernooij brz: status New Triaged
2017-06-23 00:51:01 Jelmer Vernooij brz: importance Undecided Wishlist