From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:44:37 GMT
Subject: Re: timestamps not git-cloned
Message-ID: <m3tz9oi0im.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <4933A9B1.3070904@op5.se>

Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:

> 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.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git