I'd like a way to always ask the RCS (Git) to update a file's mtime in refresh mode. This is currently only done on the first build, and later for `--gettime --rebuild`. But always rebuilding is too heavy-weight for this use-case. My options are to either manually set the mtime before refreshing, or to have ikiwiki do it at command. I used to do the former, but would now like the latter, as ikiwiki now generally does this timestamp handling. From a quick look, the code in `IkiWiki/Render.pm:find_new_files` is relevant: `if (! $pagemtime{$page}) { [...]`. How would you like to tackle this? --[[tschwinge]] > This could be done via a `needsbuild` hook. The hook is passed > the list of changed files, and it should be safe to call `rcs_getmtime` > and update the `pagemtime` for each. > > That lets the feature be done by a plugin, which seems good, since > `rcs_getmtime` varies between very slow and not very fast, depending on > VCS. > > AFAICS, the only use case for doing this is if you commit changes and > then delay pushing them to a DVCS repo. Since then the file mtime will > be when the change was pushed, not when it was committed. But I've > generally felt that recording when a change was published to the repo > of a wiki as its mtime is good enough. --[[Joey]]