Re: timestamps not git-cloned

From: dhruva <dhruvakm@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 28, 2008, 03:08 UTC
Message-ID: <e3f230850811271908g1be6b3f9t3e678081088de06b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87ej0wwptn.fsf@jidanni.org>

Hi,

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 7:54 AM,  <jidanni@jidanni.org> wrote:

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> Gentlemen, it's my first git-clone,
> $ git-clone git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-fso/files.git
> and I'm disappointed to find the timestamps of the files created are
> all now and not the date of last edit. At least mention something
> about this on the git-clone man page.

I do not think there is an VCS that records timestamps. Only file
contents are tracked. Also, if you clone from systems across time
zones, what time do you expect to set on the files. IMO, it is not
practical to track timestamps.
 Are you concerned of 'make' doing a complete build when you switch
branches? I guess it makes sense only in that scenario. I wish 'make'
had some feature to track changes instead of timestamps alone...

-dhruva

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