From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:58:24 GMT
Subject: Re: timestamps not git-cloned
Message-ID: <200811281358.24592.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To: <87ej0wwptn.fsf@jidanni.org>

fredag 28 november 2008 03:24:04 skrev jidanni@jidanni.org:
> Gentlemen, it's my first git-clone,
> $ git-clone git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-fso/files.git
> and I'm disappointed to find the timestamps of the files created are
> all now and not the date of last edit. At least mention something
> about this on the git-clone man page.

I recommend every new Git user to scan the FAQ. It's not just clone,
it's in everything git does in the file system. There is a very good 
reason git behaves this way in general, although clone could be
exception, but then we would have a ton of questions about that
inconsistency.

-- robin