Re: Git checkout preserve timestamp?

From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Mar 2, 2007, 09:14 UTC
Message-ID: <20070302091426.GA2605@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <17895.18265.710811.536526@lisa.zopyra.com>

On 2007-03-01 15:36:25 -0600, Bill Lear wrote:

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> I often find myself in branch A, with everything checked in and
> compiled, wanting to look at something on branch B. I hop to branch
> B, look, and come back to branch A. Unfortunately, when I then do a
> make, files that differed between A and B will be recompiled, as
> well as any further dependencies.

Like others have already recommended, I usually just use separate repositories to work around this problem. Of course, the proper fix is to use a make-like tool that uses content hashes as well as timestamps to decide if a file has been updated ...

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Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
      www.treskal.com/kalle

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