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Re: Setting file timestamps to commit time (git-checkout)

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CMConstantine A. Murenin <mureninc@gmail.com>
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Dec 11, 2013, 01:39 UTC
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On 10 December 2013 00:35, Dominik Vogt <vogt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> that sounds awfully expensive, and really out of the scope of an
> RCS.  The second best approach I could think of is to stamp files
> with the timestamp of the last commit that touched that, but I
> guess that is not a cheap operation either.
You can already do this with a very small third-party script:
    https://github.com/cnst/git-tools/blob/master/git-restore-mtime-core
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  2. Junio C HamanoDec 9, 2013
  3. Dominik VogtDec 10, 2013
  4. Andreas SchwabDec 10, 2013
  5. Dominik VogtDec 11, 2013
  6. Constantine A. MureninDec 11, 2013
  7. Jonathan NiederDec 9, 2013
  8. Dominik VogtDec 10, 2013
  9. Duy NguyenDec 10, 2013
  10. Jonathan NiederDec 11, 2013
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