From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:06:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add "--expire <time>" option to 'git prune'
Message-ID: <7vlk8gvmts.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711291419350.27959@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> The implementation uses st.st_mtime rather than st.st_ctime,
> because it can be tested better, using 'touch -d <time>' (and
> omitting the test when the platform does not support that
> command line switch).

But I think you can use more portable -t for setting mtime to
1970/01/01, but I had a feeling that earlier we were bitten by
non-portability of "touch" and introduced test-chmtime.