From: Dominik Vogt Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 07:37:11 GMT Subject: Re: Setting file timestamps to commit time (git-checkout) Message-ID: <20131211073711.GA4848@linux.vnet.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <87bo0olebe.fsf@igel.home> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 08:02:29PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Dominik Vogt writes: > > > The second best approach I could think of is to stamp files with the > > timestamp of the last commit that touched that, but I guess that is > > not a cheap operation either. > > I'm using this script for this: [snip] Hm, that runs 18 s on the local Gcc repository. That's not as expensive as I would have thought, but definitely not suitable to run automatically on each checkout. I wonder if performance could be improved by integrating the script logic into the git-checkout code (activated by a command line option). On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 05:39:05PM -0800, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > You can already do this with a very small third-party script: > > https://github.com/cnst/git-tools/blob/master/git-restore-mtime-core That script just produces error messages for me. Ciao Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt IBM Germany