title: How do I clone a repository and preserve the file time stamps?
body: <p>How can you get a copy of the source code from the server on a new machine, but preserve the file time stamps?</p>
  
  <p>With the following procedure, all the time stamps are set to the current date/time.</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Manually create the root folder for the repository</li>
  <li>CD into it</li>
  <li>Perform an <code>hg init</code></li>
  <li>Use TortiseHg to clone the repository from the server to the folder.</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Is there an option, or different procedure that will preserve the time stamps?</p>
  
  <p>In this specific case, using Kiln with TortoiseHg.</p>