Improvement request: preserve metadata of replaced files

[boozook]

For example I have two equal files A & B. B have creation and modification dates. After fclones dedupe dates reseted to current. Instead of it will be better to set dates to original from B or maybe from A. Also will be great to preserve other metadata and filesystem flags such as tags or timemachine flags.

[kapitainsky]

Can you show an example that it is not preserved? There were some issues with xattr in the past but all was fixed.

Of course always possible that something is not perfect still.

[boozook]

Seems to my horrible mistake, just tested one more time and dates are correct 🤔, sorry for disturbance.

[kapitainsky]

Never enough testing and careful checking:)