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Re: timestamps not git-cloned

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 1, 2008, 11:44 UTC
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Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:
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> I see a lot of ranting but no patches from you. Since you're the one
> with the itch, why not just submit a patch and see if distro packagers
> start using it?
> 
> Some words of advice though; Make it optional, or it'll be dropped on
> the floor. For bonus points, make it calculate timestamps only for a
> path-spec delimited set of files. That'll cut down expected runtime
> by a *huge* amount for something like the linux kernel.

I think the old idea of 'tree blame' (search archives) would be a good interface for this feature... if you decide to write it.

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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