From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:19:32 GMT
Subject: Re: preserving mtime
Message-ID: <fhjqrp$v14$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <473D63F9.4010201@inrim.it>

Fabrizio Pollastri wrote:

> is it possible to tell git to preserve the file modification time in a 
> checked out copy? It is useful when managing web files, where mtime is 
> tested by spiders for download decisions.

I don't quite understand. When git checks out copy, or switch branches,
or resets it does update only files which changed.

Git does not store mtime of files in tree object.
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git