From: David Woodhouse Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 13:19:00 GMT Subject: Re: naive question Message-ID: <1113916741.4166.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <16997.222.917219.386956@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 23:00 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Is there a way to check out a tree without changing the mtime of any > files that you have already checked out and which are the same as the > version you are checking out? It seems that checkout-cache -a doesn't > overwrite any existing files, and checkout-cache -f -a overwrites all > files and gives them the current mtime. This is a pain if you are > using make and your tree is large (like, for instance, the linux > kernel :), because it means that after a checkout-cache -f -a you get > to recompile everything. Corollary: why aren't we storing mtime in the tree objects? -- dwmw2