Reverting/cheout files with old modification date

Peter Pientka· Jun 9, 2011, 07:09 UTC · lore

Hi, Is any way to revert/checkout some files from reposotory with old modification date(file parameter). Now, while I revert/checkout some file, modification date of file is set to current date and time.

Currently I`m using git version 1.7.4.msysgit.0

Thanks for reply

Fabrizio Chiarello· Jun 10, 2011, 07:17 UTC · re: Peter Pientka · lore

Re: Reverting/cheout files with old modification date

On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 07:09:47AM +0000, Peter Pientka wrote:

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> Hi,
> Is any way to revert/checkout some files from reposotory with old modification
> date(file parameter). Now, while I revert/checkout some file, modification date
> of file is set to current date and time.
>

I use this hook. On checkout it sets the mtime of all the files to the date of the last commit touching them.

===== .git/hooks/post-checkout

#!/bin/sh

for f in `git ls-tree --name-only -r HEAD`; do
    mtime=`git log -n1 --date=iso --pretty=%ai -- $f`
    touch -m -d "$mtime" $f
done

=====

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