From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:35:45 GMT Subject: Re: git and mtime Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <46d6db660811190818r3aa2a392pda9106ac4a579cf0@mail.gmail.com> Hi, On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Christian MICHON wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Roger Leigh 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. I had a need like this, too, and solved it by teaching the build process to fall back to generated files if the tool to generate them was not available. Ciao, Dscho