Re: Git Vs. CVS
  By: Diamond Dave to All on Mon Aug 24 2020 05:17 am

 > Rob,
 >
 > Congrats from moving from CVS to Git. I'm sure overall it will be better for
 > you, Deuce, and other developers.
 >
 > However, one thing I did notice is that if I download a file from there, it
 > shows the current date, not the date it was created. So in looking at the
 > actual file, it's hard to say it's something from 10 years ago or yesterday.
 > Yes, I know I can look at the website and see when a file was actually
 > updated, but if I download a copy of a directory, all the files show the
 > current date. In the CVS version, the actual file creation date was shown.
 >
 > Thoughts?

I've never noticed the file's dates on a cvs checkout. Indeed, the cvs client
would set the local file time stamp to that of the last-modification date/time
in the repository. And Git doesn't do that:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2458042/restore-a-files-modification-time-i
n-git

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