Appeal to respect the development history and time tracking

[Cameron Simpson]

On 25Aug2015 17:18, Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab at web.de> wrote:
>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.
[...]
>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?)

I wrote (and use regularly) this script:

  https://bitbucket.org/cameron_simpson/css/src/tip/bin/hg-apply-manifest-dates

which applies the commit dates from a chosen revision (default "tip") to an 
existing tree of files. My normal use case is to put meaningful timestamps on 
an hg archive before tarring/zipping it up, but it should serve your use case 
also.

Since it is Python and uses os.utime, it doesn't care whether files have speces 
in them.

I am indebted to Dirkjan Ochtman for the core program logic.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>