Re: Emacs 29 and Tramp and Remote Dired confusion

[Bill Benedetto]

Great idea!

Remembering that this is emacs 29.

    1. emacs -Q
    2. C-x C-f
    3. /ssh:me@remotemachine:.
    4. C-x 1
    5. C (dired-do-copy)
    6. type a new name for the target file and hit <return>

The new file will have the current timestamp instead of the original timestamp.

In previous versions of emacs/tramp, it would have the original timestamp.

I also checked dired-copy-preserve-time and it is t in both versions that I am 
testing (28 and 29 pretest 29.0.92)

Is this any clearer?

-Bill 

-----Original Message-----
From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+bbenedetto=goodyear.com@gnu.org 
<help-gnu-emacs-bounces+bbenedetto=goodyear.com@gnu.org> On Behalf Of Eli 
Zaretskii
Sent: Friday, July 7, 2023 9:11 AM
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: Emacs 29 and Tramp and Remote Dired confusion

> From: Bill Benedetto <bbenedetto@goodyear.com>
> CC: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2023 12:58:55 +0000
> 
> If I do like you said, copy from a remote to a local dired, it does retain 
> the timestamp.
> And if I copy from a remote to a different remote dired, the timestamp is 
> still retained.
> 
> But if I copy within the same remote dired to a new name within that same 
> remote dired, the timestamp changes.
> (Like to make a backup copy of the original file.)

What do you mean by "that same remote dired"?  What is "the same" in this case?

How about showing a complete recipe, starting from "emacs -Q" and showing all 
the commands and key sequences you type to reproduce the problem?