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Re: Branches & directories

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HWHilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbenga@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 2, 2011, 23:40 UTC
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On 2 October 2011 09:57, Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hilco Wijbenga skrev 2011-08-22 22.10:
>>
>> [...] I just wish there was at least an option to
>> keep the timestamp (and possibly other such things). Even Subversion
>> can do that... ;-) After all, not everybody uses C&  make.
>>
> What tools do you use that need the benefits from retaining timestamps? The
> only
> one I can think of is clearmake, but then that tool goes with another SCM.
> Eclipse,
> for example, will be just as confused by timestamps that travel backwards in
> time, as
> make is.
Why would timestamps travel back in time? They simply would not change.

Anyway, we're not really talking about the same thing. If there's an update (i.e. git pull or something similar) then changing the timestamp to something (anything) newer is the right thing to do. In fact, it would be painful (as you already alluded to) if this were not the case.

That's however not the scenario that I'm talking about. I'm talking about doing

git checkout branch git checkout master

or

git stash git stash pop

In both cases all files (or at least all affected files, in case of git stash) get the current time as their timestamp instead of the timestamp they had before. This is forcing (completely unnecessary) rebuilds. *Nothing* has changed but I have to do a complete rebuild (well, I suppose I could "touch" all build artifacts and such but I'm sure you get the idea).

I understand *why* it's happening (it's simply reusing the existing Git functionality) but in the scenarios above nothing has really changed, I should be able to pick up from where I left off, shouldn't I?

(Obviously, I moved the discussion off track when I started talking about Subversion, commits, and commit times. That's really just an implementation detail and I wish I had never brought it up.)

P.S. I'm quite happy with git-new-workdir so I do believe I have a good workaround.

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  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
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  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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