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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="http://joeyh.name/"
+ ip="4.154.0.21"
+ subject="comment 2"
+ date="2013-07-30T17:40:04Z"
+ content="""
+git-annex makes only a best-effort attempt to preserve mtime. There are multiple cases where it cannot:
+
+* filesystems that do not support changing the mtime of a symlink
+* special remotes
+* when 2 files with the same content get stored in the annex, the mtime of one must win over the other since we only have 1 inode
+
+This last seems to be what has happened in the example you show. Both `foo` and `foobar` are empty. I'm not sure where the 01:19:41 time came from -- perhaps you had a third empty file that was not shown?
+
+I've tested `git annex import` and it preserves mtimes otherwise.
+
+
+"""]]