Re: [RFC PATCH] checkout: Force matching mtime between files

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 23, 2018, 23:41 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqtvs18p9o.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <robbat2-20180423T200557-844830385Z@orbis-terrarum.net>

"Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org> writes:

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> On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 07:01:29PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
>> Currently git does not control mtimes of files being checked out.  This
>> means that the only assumption you could make is that all files created
>> or modified within a single checkout action will have mtime between
>> start time and end time of this checkout.  The relations between mtimes
>> of different files depend on the order in which they are checked out,
>> filesystem speed and timestamp precision.
>> ...
> Junio: ping for review or inclusion of this patch?

I personally did not think this is a good idea and not worth any code contamination with calls to utime(). Is there anybody sane who thought this was a good idea in the discussion thread?