Re: git and mtime

> Hi folks,
>
> I'm using git to store some generated files, as well as their sources.
> (This is in the context of Debian package development, where entire
> upstream release tarballs are injected into an upstream branch, with
> Debian releases merging the upstream branch, and adding the Debian
> packaging files.)
>
> The upstream release tarballs contains files such as
> - yacc/lex code, and the corresponding generated sources
> - Docbook/XML code, and corresponding HTML/PDF documentation
>
> These are provided by upstream so that end users don't need these  
> tools
> installed (particularly docbook, since the toolchain is so flaky on
> different systems).  However, the fact that git isn't storing the
> mtime of the files confuses make, so it then tries to regenerate these
> (already up-to-date) files, and fails in the process since the tools
> aren't available.
>
> Would it be possible for git to store the mtime of files in the tree?
>