Re: preserving mtime

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Nov 19, 2007, 14:38 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711191537030.16728@wbgn129.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20071117182236.GD23659@blorf.net>

Hi,

On Sat, 17 Nov 2007, Wayne Davison wrote:

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> On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 11:15:34AM +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> >> is it possible to tell git to preserve the file modification time in
> >> a checked out copy?
> 
> > Fabrizio Pollastri wrote:
> > No. Doing so would seriously break build-systems.
> 
> I wish that the initial clone would set the modification time to the
> commit time.

Could you stop this discussion, please? This subject comes up every once in a while, and in the meantime the archives contain more sane explanations why this would be a bad behaviour of git than I could tell off of my head.

So no, this is not a sane behaviour.

If you _must_ inist on this behaviour, write your own hook, don't tell anybody about it, especially not when things break.

Hth, Dscho