Appeal to respect the development history and time tracking

[Adrian Klaver]

On 08/25/2015 03:40 AM, Mosc via Mercurial wrote:
> Hi there.
>
> Don’t touch date and time stamps of the files and directories, never,
> even after formatting (because it is just formatting). _Perfect_ tool
> _must_ accurately save and accurately restore creation and modification
> date and time of the files and directories, and even last access date
> and time (surely if the file system support it). Don’t be stupid and
> stubborn monkeys like other, be better and make the tool with feature
> that is very important for people (representatives of the «Homo sapiens»
> species), because time is a fundamental measure of real efficiency for
> development and life at all. Remember, that aging is irreversibly and
> only fools don’t value the time and consider it unimportant.
>
> At least add warning that all the date and time stamps of all files and
> all directories would be destroyed _forever_ after using Mercurial SCM.

What are you talking about?

Or better yet, can you provide a coherent example?

>
> With best regards, Mosc.
>
> P. S. I’m very disappointed that the most of HG users (and other VCSs)
> consider the date and time stamps of the files and directories
> unimportant. There is very significant difference between just sitting
> on a chair (what actually is tracking by the most of the time-tracking
> systems) and the real creation (of something useful).
>
>
>
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