From: "Stephen R. van den Berg" <srb@cuci.nl>
To: Chris Frey <cdfrey@foursquare.net>
Cc: jidanni@jidanni.org, dhruvakm@gmail.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: timestamps not git-cloned
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 10:22:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081129092231.GA32630@cuci.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081129085406.GA20428@foursquare.net>
Chris Frey wrote:
>On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 01:06:00PM +0800, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
>> I hate it when I get some latest WhizBang.tgz, only to untar it to
>> find all the files' dates the same, when in fact the README hasn't
>> been touched in seven years, but you can't tell that from ls -l. I
>> recall some content tracker was involved.
>If this is the important bit, perhaps git-archive could be changed
>to create tarballs with file timestamps based on their commit dates.
Based on the principle of least surprise, I'd consider this a rather good
idea.
--
Sincerely,
Stephen R. van den Berg.
To people that say "I could care less" - well, why don't you?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-29 9:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-28 2:24 timestamps not git-cloned jidanni
2008-11-28 3:08 ` dhruva
2008-11-28 5:06 ` jidanni
2008-11-28 6:59 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-11-29 8:54 ` Chris Frey
2008-11-29 9:22 ` Stephen R. van den Berg [this message]
2008-11-29 10:16 ` Thomas Rast
2008-11-30 0:48 ` jidanni
2008-12-01 9:09 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-12-01 11:44 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-11-30 1:14 ` Sitaram Chamarty
2008-11-28 5:57 ` David Brown
2008-11-28 14:59 ` Peter Krefting
2008-11-28 11:51 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-11-28 12:58 ` Robin Rosenberg
2008-11-28 13:20 ` Johannes Schindelin
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