Re: Consist timestamps within a checkout/clone

From: Erik Cervin Edin <erik@cervined.in>
Date: Nov 3, 2022, 13:02 UTC
Message-ID: <CA+JQ7M8g+e2y4tJ6k64ZQheS=x+HiZuB720M5bR8Y9yPFv0jZg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <221101.86fsf24qnu.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com>

On Tue, Nov 1, 2022 at 4:53 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I believe you might be trying to re-invent "make -B" :)

True, in the simple case, but if you
  git diff HEAD --name-only --diff-filter=AM | xargs touch
that should consolidate the modified times on disk of the files of that commit

It needs a bit more work, something like
  pre_checkout=$(git rev-parse HEAD)
  git checkout XYX &&
  git diff pre_checkout...XYZ --name-only --diff-filter=AM | xargs touch
but something like that can work around the inconsistent ordered
modified times after a checkout