From 99524bf75d3c2b1713a3e82bd29b779e3d535a88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: doneg Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 09:29:34 +0000 Subject: --- doc/todo/include_mtime_into_metadata.mdwn | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/todo/include_mtime_into_metadata.mdwn (limited to 'doc/todo') diff --git a/doc/todo/include_mtime_into_metadata.mdwn b/doc/todo/include_mtime_into_metadata.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1be3ab6 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/include_mtime_into_metadata.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +It's impossible to know file modification time using git. +etckeeper also saves some metadata, but not mtimes. + +Per-file mtimes are very useful to determine later when exactly change was happened. +As of now, only date could be known, knowing there is `daily autocommit`, but time information is lost. Date is very imprecise, because there can be many changes per day. -- cgit v1.2.3