Re: Git checkout preserve timestamp?

From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Mar 5, 2007, 14:53 UTC
Message-ID: <20070305145347.GC3481@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <200703051319.17046.andyparkins@gmail.com>

On 2007-03-05 13:19:15 +0000, Andy Parkins wrote:

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> On Monday 2007 March 05 12:33, Karl Hasselström wrote:
>
> > Now, obviously "make" isn't such a make tool, since it goes only
> > by timestamps.
>
> Perhaps this will help you:
>
> http://kolpackov.net/pipermail/notes/2004-September/000011.html

Thanks for the pointer; I hadn't seen that technique before. But it isn't really worth it. The make tool going by hash rather than timestamp is a nice-to-have, not a must-have (for those projects I've been involved in anyway), so the cost of the solution proposed in that message is too high.

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

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