- Pull creation time for each new page out of the revision control
- system. This rarely used option provides a way to get the real creation
- times of items in weblogs, such as when building a wiki from a new
- VCS checkout. It is unoptimised and quite slow. It is best used
- with --rebuild, to force ikiwiki to get the ctime for all pages.
+ Extract creation and modification times for each new page from the
+ the revision control's log. This is done automatically when building a
+ wiki for the first time, so you normally do not need to use this option.