Re: Git should preserve modification times at least on request
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Date
- Feb 20, 2018, 23:40 UTC
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- <20180220211634.GA15232@sigill.intra.peff.net>
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> Modification times are a subset of the total metadata you might care > about, so they are solving a much more general problem. Which may also > partially answer your question about why this isn't built into git. The > general problem gets much bigger when you start wanting to carry things > like modes (which git doesn't actually track; we really only care about > the executable bit) or extended attributes (acls, etc).
"modes" are interesting, especially when you think about group permissions, as it would make you design how you store group and owner, which in turn forces you to think how "peter" on one system relates to "peter" on another system (answer: there generally isn't any relationship) ;-)