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When adding files to git annex, softlinks are created with current atime (and ctime, etc). Instead, the atime of the added file should be used and added to the meta-data, restoring it everywhere an annex is cloned to.
Optionally, editing the meta-data should change the times in all annexes.
> Thing is, git does not preserve file timestamps much at all.
> It's not uncommon for a `git checkout` to or `git update` to
> mess up timestamps. This is why things like metastore exist (and
> metastore should work ok with git annexed files too). Trying to
> make annexed file symlinks have better timestamp handling than regular
> files in git seems pointless. --[[Joey]]
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