From: Marc Strapetz <marc.strapetz@syntevo.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 22:29:27 GMT
Subject: Git for Windows: mingw.c's strange usage of creation time as ctime?
Message-ID: <08983090-07d2-cfe4-dd90-ab4887b83893@syntevo.com>

compat/mingw.c assigns the Windows file creation time [1] to Git's ctime 
fields at line 591 and at line 705:

buf->st_ctime = filetime_to_time_t(&(fdata.ftCreationTime));

ftCreationTime > ftLastWriteTime is actually possible after copying a 
file, so it makes sense to include this timestamp somehow in the Index, 
but I think it would be better to use the maximum of ftLastWriteTime and 
ftCreationTime here which is less confusing and closer to Unix's ctime:

buf->st_ctime = max(buf->st_mtime,
                     filetime_to_time_t(&(fdata.ftCreationTime));

-Marc

[1] 
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365739(v=vs.85).aspx