Re: preserving mtime

> 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.