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When adding files to git annex, softlinks are created with current atime (and ctime, etc). Instead, the atime of the added file should be used and added to the meta-data, restoring it everywhere an annex is cloned to. When adding files to git annex, softlinks are created with current atime (and ctime, etc). Instead, the atime of the added file should be used and added to the meta-data, restoring it everywhere an annex is cloned to.
Optionally, editing the meta-data should change the times in all annexes. Optionally, editing the meta-data should change the times in all annexes.
> Thing is, git does not preserve file timestamps much at all.
> It's not uncommon for a `git checkout` to or `git update` to
> mess up timestamps. This is why things like metastore exist (and
> metastore should work ok with git annexed files too). Trying to
> make annexed file symlinks have better timestamp handling than regular
> files in git seems pointless. --[[Joey]]