Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 100745
Timestamps not preserved when importing file system
Last modified: 2012-05-07 12:20:41 EDT
Description of problem: Eclipse doesn't preserve the timestamps when importing files into the workspace from the filesystem. This could be problematic for tools that rely on timestamps (ie. make). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): eclipse 2.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create new C/C++ project (New->Project->C Project->blah blah blah) to import files into 2. File->import->file system 3. Select some files and import them Actual Results: Files are timestamped with the time of import. Expected Results: The timestamps of the original files should be preserved upon import. Additional info: See eclipse.org bug https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=25387 (a proposed patch is currently available) Related to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=76087
Recent changes have been made to the PDE to support this feature. These methods have been added: IResource.getResourceAttributes(); IResource.setResourceAttributes(ResourceAttributes); See comments posted to the eclipse.org link above by Tod Creasey and Douglas Pollack on 10/29/2004. From the comments, work is proceeding now that these methods are in place.