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Re: git and mtime

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 19, 2008, 13:29 UTC
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Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net> writes:
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> 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.

I don't think it would be done as in core change at all, or at least soon.

You can use Metastore, or some custom clean/smudge gitattribute filters with something like Metastore (or etckeeper) to store extra metadata about files in your tree.

See http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools
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Jakub Narebski
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