[[!comment format=mdwn username="https://me.yahoo.com/a/EbvxpTI_xP9Aod7Mg4cwGhgjrCrdM5s-#7c0f4" subject="comment 2" date="2015-12-21T15:46:53Z" content=""" FWIW well -- git-annex does at least a bit to maintain mtime. E.g. when I 'annex add' a file, the symlink's mtime becomes the one of the original file. Unfortunately it is not the case though whenever I acquire the load for that key, which possibly gets correct mtime again, but then symlink doesn't get mtime adjusted to match to the one of the key. """]]