From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:15:34 GMT
Subject: Re: preserving mtime
Message-ID: <473D6DC6.8040804@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <473D63F9.4010201@inrim.it>

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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