From: Andy Parkins Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:01:45 GMT Subject: Re: Git checkout preserve timestamp? Message-ID: <200703051601.49370.andyparkins@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <17900.11612.872928.633406@lisa.zopyra.com> On Monday 2007 March 05 14:46, Bill Lear wrote: > All very wrong if you ignore what I wrote as part of my original note: > keep compilation products separated by branch name, not in the same I realise why it's causing you troubles. However, I was hoping that that little example shows why it can never be right to use the timestamp out of the repository. > place. This is essential to my request: without it, it is indeed very > wrong. We currently separate out by compiler, options, machine > architecture, and adding the branch to that is trivial. I'm afraid that the unnecessary recompile is just a by-product of that organisation. I still say that git is correct to touch the file dates. [blatent plug]: perhaps my poorman's submodule support will get you by until real submodule support is implemented? http://lists.zerezo.com/git/msg334639.html I doubt it though - as you would probably want automatic checkout in your situation. Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIET andyparkins@gmail.com