Re: patch ping: folder and file dates on copy

[John Keller <gnome johnkeller com>]

Hey, Alexander.

Apologies for a direct email, but I see that you're replying to several 
recent threads. I'm hoping that you might consider these two bugs and 
add your comments to them:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=527339
(contains a patch, doesn't seem to have been reviewed)

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=515777
(incomplete: implementation only addressed file dates, and only on local 
file systems)

Original message below...

- John

John Keller wrote:
> Just wanted to ping that there are two open bugs that cover slightly 
> different aspects of keeping folder and file dates when making copies:
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=527339
> (contains a patch, doesn't seem to have been reviewed)
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=515777
> (incomplete: implementation only addressed file dates, and only on local 
> file systems)
>
> This is a big "quality of life" regression - not critical, but keeping 
> dates for copies made tracking remote shares (e.g. Web sites) and 
> archives (local and remote) much easier, nicer.
>
> In pre-gvfs days, I only needed Nautilus. Now I need to resort to the 
> command line on a regular basis for exactly the thing that Nautilus 
> should be able to do: file management. I hope you'll bring the polish 
> back to folder and file copies.
>
> - John