How to preserve time stamps of copy from a zipTree?

[carlo_lf (Carlo Luib-Finetti)]

Continuing the discussion from Copy task does not preserve original file creation and modification time:

This question is unresolved / not answered. Because I’m stumbling over the same problem, I want to ask again: is there a way to keep timestamps when exploding from a zipTree (under Windows)? Using some closure?

@Pavel_Trka

Hello, I have problem with Copy task - it is not preserving original file date/time modification time attributes, copied files have all newly set creation/modification time.

I know I can use Ant task (although I didnt try it so I dont know if it will solve the problem) but I want to ask if this is known behaviour and if it is “by design” or if it will be changed in the future.

Im running Gradle 1.2 on windows7 x64 with NTFS filesystem.

Thanks, Pavel

Continuing the discussion from Copy task does not preserve original file creation and modification time:

@Pavel_Trka

Hello, I have problem with Copy task - it is not preserving original file date/time modification time attributes, copied files have all newly set creation/modification time.

I know I can use Ant task (although I didnt try it so I dont know if it will solve the problem) but I want to ask if this is known behaviour and if it is “by design” or if it will be changed in the future.

Im running Gradle 1.2 on windows7 x64 with NTFS filesystem.

Thanks, Pavel

[bmuschko (Benjamin Muschko)]

There hasn’t been any progress in the meantime on the issue. Would you be interested in contributing the functionality?

[carlo_lf (Carlo Luib-Finetti)]

I do not know much about the innards of Gradle and where to change anything. But the plain function should be easy to implement if you have the ZipEntry and the File handle.

file.setLastModified(entry.getTime())


[bmuschko (Benjamin Muschko)]

I added the corresponding issue in JIRA to this question: GRADLE-2698. Please upvote the issue to give it a higher priority. Unfortunately, at the moment we are really clogged up with other commitments so I am not sure when we’ll get to it. A pull request would certainly help a lot.