Re: mod-times (was: keyword expansion)

From: Geert Bosch <bosch@adacore.com>
Date: Apr 25, 2005, 18:13 UTC
Message-ID: <3741014dfd79fce50999dc19d7029c40@adacore.com>
In-Reply-To: <200504251756.j3PHuSh01362@unix-os.sc.intel.com>

On Apr 25, 2005, at 13:56, tony.luck@intel.com wrote:

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>> 	- Time stamp of the last modification of a file
>
> One way to do this would be to rip on some of the core fundamentals of 
> GIT
> and store the time that an object was created inside the object. E.g.
>
>    blob size secs-since-1970 ...
>
> Then "read-tree" could fill this into the cache, and checkout-cache 
> could
> set the mod-time on the file when it creates it, which would mean that 
> you
> could see the timestamp for a file simply by using "ls -l file".

Of course this negates the idea of content-based storage, since you want two copies of the same content with different time-stamps to share the same blob.

   -Geert