From: Wayne Davison <wayne@opencoder.net>
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 18:22:36 GMT
Subject: Re: preserving mtime
Message-ID: <20071117182236.GD23659@blorf.net>
In-Reply-To: <473D6DC6.8040804@op5.se>

On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 11:15:34AM +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>> is it possible to tell git to preserve the file modification time in
>> a checked out copy?

> Fabrizio Pollastri wrote:
> No. Doing so would seriously break build-systems.

I wish that the initial clone would set the modification time to the
commit time.  It would make the intial checkout have a more accurate
representation of when a file was last changed instead of all files
being set to the clone date.  Then, files that are being updated would
get their time set as they do now.  I supposed I'll just use the handy
git-set-file-times script (mentioned in another reply) every time I do
a clone.

..wayne..