From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:29:43 GMT
Subject: Re: git and mtime
Message-ID: <m3abbvlu9a.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20081119113752.GA13611@ravenclaw.codelibre.net>

Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net> writes:

> 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

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git