Re: git and mtime

> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net> wrote:
> > Would it be possible for git to store the mtime of files in the tree?
> >
> > This would make it possible to do this type of work in git, since it's 
> > currently a bit random as to whether it works or not.  This only 
> > started when I upgraded to an amd64 architecture from powerpc32, I 
> > guess it's maybe using high-resolution timestamps.
> >
> 
> beside the obvious answer it comes back often as a request, it is 
> possible in theory to create a shell script which, for each file present 
> in the sandbox in the current branch, would find the mtime of the last 
> commit on that file (quite an expensive operation) and apply it.
> 
> I had a need for this once, then lost interest since using git as it is 
> is so much better than trying to mimic behaviour of old scm tools and 
> makefiles.