Hi!

dhruva:

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> I do not think there is an VCS that records timestamps. Only file
> contents are tracked.

CVS sort of does. The initial checkout sets the time stamp of files to
their last *check-in* time (and you can import a file with -D to set
its commit time to the current timestamp). Updates do, however, set to
current time (to not break make and friends).

I miss this behaviour in Git, but I have learnt to live with it. I
guess it is like a difference in philosophy on what time-stamps are
supposed to record, like how UNIX "cp" sets the time of the new-born
copy to now, while DOS "copy" sets it to the old time-stamp. Coming
to Unix and Linux from DOS (via OS/2), I find "cp" behaviour weird. But
have learnt to live with it (and use "cp -a" a lot).

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