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 username="http://joeyh.name/"
 ip="209.250.56.144"
 subject="comment 1"
 date="2014-09-23T20:27:25Z"
 content="""
The closest git comes to storing a timestamp is the date of the last commit of a file for mtime, and first commit for ctime. However, those are pretty expensive to look up for a given file. And git doesn't try to preserve timestamps in checkouts at all, which argues that git-annex, at least at the command line, should not either.
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