From: Stephen R. van den Berg Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 09:22:31 GMT Subject: Re: timestamps not git-cloned Message-ID: <20081129092231.GA32630@cuci.nl> In-Reply-To: <20081129085406.GA20428@foursquare.net> Chris Frey wrote: >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. Based on the principle of least surprise, I'd consider this a rather good idea. -- Sincerely, Stephen R. van den Berg. To people that say "I could care less" - well, why don't you?