From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 09:14:26 GMT
Subject: Re: Git checkout preserve timestamp?
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:

> 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