From: Mike Laster Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:30:22 GMT Subject: git gc annoyance Message-ID: <0BEA60F9-852B-45B2-9A9A-173B8C9386AC@metavillage.com> Whenever I run 'git gc' all of the files in .git/logs/refs/remotes/ tags get touched with the current timestamp. I use unison to sync my working directories between home and work and these files show up as changed unnecessarily. Since they are all zero- byte files clearly they haven't changed. It would be more efficient to not touch the file if it already exists to leave the old timestamp in place.