Comment 12 for bug 245170

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Andrew Schulman wrote:
>> Note that bug #488724 was fixed to address workflows involving building from sources via a Makefile.
>> Restoring modification time for files will break these workflows and we certainly don't want to make it
>> the default mode for bzr.
>
> Restoring the original modification times of all files, source and
> generated, in the working tree would certainly not break make projects.
> On the contrary, it would cause make to figure out correctly which files
> were newer than which other ones.
>
>> It should be
>> possible to write a plugin that stores this sort of metadata
>> in .bzrmeta/ and hooks into bzr core in various places to use a
>> different modification time.
>
> While someone is writing this hypothetical future plugin, they should
> store and restore file permissions and ACLs too. Thanks in advance :)
>

BTW, did you look at 'etckeeper' which is a high level wrapper around a
few VCS tools and does store at least Unix permissions and I think
modification times (it might only do unix perms.)

John
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