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Re: timestamps not git-cloned

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CFChris Frey <cdfrey@foursquare.net>
Date
Nov 29, 2008, 08:54 UTC
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<20081129085406.GA20428@foursquare.net>
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On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 01:06:00PM +0800, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
> I hate it when I get some latest WhizBang.tgz, only to untar it to
> find all the files' dates the same, when in fact the README hasn't
> been touched in seven years, but you can't tell that from ls -l. I
> recall some content tracker was involved.

If this is the important bit, perhaps git-archive could be changed to create tarballs with file timestamps based on their commit dates.

- Chris
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