Re: git and mtime
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Christian MICHON <christian.michon@gmail.com>
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- Nov 19, 2008, 16:18 UTC
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On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net> wrote:
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> Would it be possible for git to store the mtime of files in the tree? > > This would make it possible to do this type of work in git, since it's > currently a bit random as to whether it works or not. This only > started when I upgraded to an amd64 architecture from powerpc32, > I guess it's maybe using high-resolution timestamps. >
beside the obvious answer it comes back often as a request, it is possible in theory to create a shell script which, for each file present in the sandbox in the current branch, would find the mtime of the last commit on that file (quite an expensive operation) and apply it.
I had a need for this once, then lost interest since using git as it is is so much better than trying to mimic behaviour of old scm tools and makefiles.
You should store mostly content of source files. You should do a make in your first cloned repo at least once before committing anything to the repo. That's what I did and I saved days...
-- Christian -- http://detaolb.sourceforge.net/, a linux distribution for Qemu with Git inside !