From: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 05:04:15 GMT
Subject: Re: Set file modification time on checkout
Message-ID: <54643BCF.5000900@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <54643780.7060504@stormcloud9.net>

On 2014-11-13 05.45, Patrick Hemmer wrote:
> The request is to allow git to set the file modification time on
> checkout to the commit-author-date of the commit which last modified the
> file.
> Yes I know this is in the FAQ, but the FAQ entry is missing an
> increasingly common use case: docker.
> When docker builds an image, it generates layers of images based on each
> build step. Adding a file would be a build step, and for this action it
> generates a hash based on the file modification time & content.
Why do they do this?
The file content is the only thing that matters.

The other thing is to use a hook, utilizing test-chmtime
from test-chmtime.c