Appeal to respect the development history and time tracking

[Adrian Klaver]

On 08/25/2015 08:18 AM, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 25. August 2015, 07:26:45 schrieb Adrian Klaver:
>>> 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?
>
> Even though I disagree with Mosc (especially on the apes thing), I can
> provide an example:
>
> I use deft-mode[1] to organize my writings. It shows and filters text
> files in a directory. For each file it shows the title (first line)
> and the data, and it sorts by date.
>
> This weekend I had partial failure of the data on my system USB stick,
> including that folder. Some files were lost, so I recloned the deft
> directory -- and all files had the same date, so the ordering was wrong.

Alright, I see. I would expect cloning to change the timestamps, it just 
a variation of copying files, which does the same thing.

Still not sure what the problem is?

>
> I recovered very easily, though:
>
> hg up null
> for i in {1..12}; do hg up ${i}00; done
> hg up tip
>
> (I have ~1200 revisions in there)
>
> With that I had rising mtimes again.
>
> If I had wanted to spend more time, I could have updated to every
> revisions, but I did not need exact ordering. Being mostly right was
> OK :) (and USK sticks are horribly slow)
>
> If I had needed the exact time, I’d have used touch:
>
> for i in {1..1200}; do
>    for j in $(hg log -r $i --template "{files}"); do
>      touch --date "$(hg log -r tip --template "{date|isodate}")" $j;
>    done
> done
>
> … except for filenames with spaces …
>
> (does someone have a solution for these?)
>
> Best wishes,
> Arne
>
> [1]: http://jblevins.org/projects/deft/
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>


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Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver at aklaver.com