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Re: Restoring timestamps (Re: Branches & directories)

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HWHilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbenga@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 22, 2011, 22:33 UTC
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On 22 August 2011 14:01, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hilco Wijbenga wrote:
>> On 22 August 2011 12:31, Kyle Moffett <kyle@moffetthome.net> wrote:
>
>>> (1) The GIT data-structures simply have no place for file timestamps, and
>>> "git stash" is simply a special way of dumping files into a temporary commit.
>>
>> That's what I thought. The "intentionally" threw me off. It's not
>> intentional, it's just a side effect.
>
> For what it's worth: no, it's intentional.  See, for example:
>
>  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/1564/focus=1680
>  https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitFaq#Why_isn.27t_Git_preserving_modification_time_on_files.3F
After I had sent the above I realized it was worded a bit too strong.
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> That said, something being intentional does not necessarily mean it is
> always _right_.  So, for example, patches to allow a commit to store
> some timestamps, with documentation explaining when this is
> appropriate, would probably be welcome.  Maybe a good place to store
> such information would be a dotfile alongside the file (so old,
> unaware git versions could extract the same information without fuss).
You mean an extra dotfile per file in the commit?
> Even if this feature were implemented just for "git stash", personally
> I would turn it off so "make" could continue to behave as I expect it
> to.  But in principle, I don't mind the idea of it existing. :)

Given that apparently the majority of Git users don't want/need this, it should probably be off by default. So you would not even need to turn it off. :-)

In fact, I would not want it on by default either. It's really only useful when switching branches when I want to keep the exact state of the branch.

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  1. Hilco WijbengaAug 17, 2011
  2. Evan ShelhamerAug 17, 2011
  3. Junio C HamanoAug 17, 2011
  4. Hilco WijbengaAug 17, 2011
  5. Jonathan NiederAug 18, 2011
  6. Hilco WijbengaAug 21, 2011
  7. Michael WittenAug 18, 2011
  8. Michael J GruberAug 18, 2011
  9. Michael WittenAug 18, 2011
  10. Jonathan NiederAug 19, 2011
  11. Hilco WijbengaAug 21, 2011
  12. Michael WittenAug 21, 2011
  13. Hilco WijbengaAug 21, 2011
  14. Michael WittenAug 21, 2011
  15. Hilco WijbengaAug 21, 2011
  16. Michael WittenAug 22, 2011
  17. Hilco WijbengaAug 22, 2011
  18. Hilco WijbengaAug 22, 2011
  19. Michael WittenAug 22, 2011
  20. Hilco WijbengaAug 22, 2011
  21. Kyle MoffettAug 22, 2011
  22. Hilco WijbengaAug 22, 2011
  23. Kyle MoffettAug 22, 2011
  24. Hilco WijbengaAug 22, 2011
  25. Kyle MoffettAug 22, 2011
  26. Hilco WijbengaAug 22, 2011
  27. Restoring timestamps (Re: Branches & directories)Jonathan Nieder, Aug 22, 2011
  28. Hilco WijbengaAug 22, 2011
  29. Jonathan NiederAug 22, 2011
  30. Hilco WijbengaAug 23, 2011
  31. Hilco WijbengaAug 23, 2011
  32. Enrico WeigeltOct 2, 2011
  33. Hilco WijbengaOct 2, 2011
  34. Michael WittenAug 23, 2011
  35. Robin RosenbergOct 2, 2011
  36. Ronan KeryellOct 2, 2011
  37. Matthieu MoyOct 2, 2011
  38. Hilco WijbengaOct 2, 2011
  39. Hilco WijbengaOct 2, 2011
  40. Jeff KingOct 3, 2011
  41. Hilco WijbengaOct 3, 2011
  42. Jeff KingOct 3, 2011
  43. Matthieu MoyOct 3, 2011
  44. Jeff KingOct 3, 2011
  45. Matthieu MoyOct 3, 2011
  46. Jeff KingOct 3, 2011
  47. Junio C HamanoOct 3, 2011
  48. Jeff KingOct 3, 2011
  49. Hilco WijbengaOct 3, 2011
  50. Robin RosenbergOct 3, 2011
  51. Hilco WijbengaOct 3, 2011
  52. Hilco WijbengaOct 2, 2011

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