X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/fb4f21c438d05e0a171fc3b2cc74636687a3f1a5..bb389a5ae25461ed20e2d28b18ea8b08f5f36473:/doc/forum/How_does_ikiwiki_remember_times__63__.mdwn diff --git a/doc/forum/How_does_ikiwiki_remember_times__63__.mdwn b/doc/forum/How_does_ikiwiki_remember_times__63__.mdwn index d492961ac..6ce576db1 100644 --- a/doc/forum/How_does_ikiwiki_remember_times__63__.mdwn +++ b/doc/forum/How_does_ikiwiki_remember_times__63__.mdwn @@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ Do I have it right? > > Surely it is not the _last changed time_ but the _first seen time_ of each page that is pulled out of the VCS? > > If the aim is to get the real creation times of items in weblogs, then the last times that the items were > > changed in the VCS is not going to help. -- [[seanh]] +>>> Typo, fixed. --[[Joey]] > > > If you want to preserve the date of a page, the best way to do it is to > > > use [[ikiwiki/directive/meta]] date="foo". This will survive checkouts, @@ -86,3 +87,23 @@ Do I have it right? $EDITOR "$pagename" >>>>> -- [[Jon]] + +> A quick workaround for me to get modification times right is the following +> little zsh script, which unfortunately only works for git: + + #!/usr/bin/env zsh + + set +x + + for FILE in **/*(.); do + TIMES="`git log --pretty=format:%ai $FILE`" + MTIME="`echo $TIMES | head -n1`" + + if [ ! -z $MTIME ]; then + echo touch -m -d "$MTIME" $FILE + touch -m -d "$MTIME" $FILE + fi + + done + +> --[[David_Riebenbauer]]