From: Hilco Wijbenga Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 16:42:39 GMT Subject: Re: Git should preserve modification times at least on request Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 3:22 PM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > Aside from exactly which modification times should be used (which I > would love to have a bit more control over as well), something else > I'd like to see is that, when switching between branches, files that > are the same on both branches should not have their modification time > changed. As Junio pointed out to me, Git actually already does what I want when switching branches. To verify, I switched between 5 branches after setting a specific timestamp on a particular file, and it did not change throughout the process. Now I'm left wondering when this changed or whether my memory is faulty. I could have sworn this did not work previously. :-)