From: Chris Frey <cdfrey@foursquare.net>
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:54:06 GMT
Subject: Re: timestamps not git-cloned
Message-ID: <20081129085406.GA20428@foursquare.net>
In-Reply-To: <87tz9sv3rb.fsf@jidanni.org>

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