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authorJoey Hess <joey@gnu.kitenet.net>2009-03-20 16:36:51 -0400
committerJoey Hess <joey@gnu.kitenet.net>2009-03-20 16:36:51 -0400
commit10a9c00151d43fd26ba523806928b833d6d2aa62 (patch)
tree9eecefa02861c640207d678dda5605db093f62ca /doc/forum
parentee973d0b460044769328b30067d1d7ca24a5a228 (diff)
git, mercurial: Fix --getctime to return file creation time, not last commit time.
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@@ -22,3 +22,14 @@ What is the rationale for ikiwiki's current behavior with respect to these
time stamps?
--[[tschwinge]]
+
+> Presumably it's the authors of the git and mercurial backends
+> not understanding the documentation for `rcs_getctime`,
+> which states:
+>
+>>This is used to get the page creation time for a file from the RCS, by
+>>looking it up in the history.
+>
+> I've fixed both broken implementations to correctly look
+> up the first, not the last, commit. Other VCS do not seem
+> to have the problem. --[[Joey]]