Use shutil.copystat in copyfile().
adding foo
pushing to ../cia
searching for changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 1 changesets with 1 changes to 1 files
<message>
<generator>
<name>Mercurial (hgcia)</name>
<version>0.1</version>
<url>http://hg.kublai.com/mercurial/hgcia</url>
<user>testuser</user>
</generator>
<source>
<project>testproject</project>
<branch>default</branch>
</source>
<body>
<commit>
<author>test</author>
<version>0:e63c23eaa88a</version>
<log>foo</log>
<files><file action="add">foo</file></files>
</commit>
</body>
<timestamp>0</timestamp>
</message>