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Re: naive question

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IMIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date
Apr 19, 2005, 13:51 UTC
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* David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
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> 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?

Check the "[bug] git: check-files mtime problem?" thread - i noticed this problem before and gave a few suggestions but the discussion got nowhere. But the problem is still very much present.

	Ingo
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  1. Paul MackerrasApr 19, 2005
  2. David WoodhouseApr 19, 2005
  3. Ingo MolnarApr 19, 2005
  4. Petr BaudisApr 19, 2005
  5. Linus TorvaldsApr 19, 2005
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