Preserve Creation Date

[squarebrakets]

Would be a nice to have

[Hiromu OCHIAI]

Does it help?

copy/options.go

Lines 27 to 29 in 323db16

 // Preserve the atime and the mtime of the entries. 
 // On linux we can preserve only up to 1 millisecond accuracy. 
 PreserveTimes bool 

[squarebrakets]

Sorry for late response. It doesn't work because standard go lib doesn't support changing creation date for some reason. As you already know there is no way to apply Ctime here. But the underlying implementation actually allows Ctime. For this reason Ctime is not preserved.

	if err := os.Chtimes(dest, spec.Atime, spec.Mtime); err != nil {
		return err
	}