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Re: preserving mtime

From
Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date
Nov 16, 2007, 10:15 UTC
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<473D6DC6.8040804@op5.se>
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Fabrizio Pollastri wrote:
> Hi all,
> is it possible to tell git to preserve the file modification time in a 
> checked out copy? It is useful when managing web files, where mtime is 
> tested by spiders for download decisions.

No. Doing so would seriously break build-systems. If you want you can have a post-checkout hook that sets the mtime on all the files though. You should be able to parse the time the commit being checked out was made from HEAD.

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