From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) Subject: Re: git and mtime Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:11:15 -0800 Message-ID: <86iqqizgng.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> References: <20081119113752.GA13611@ravenclaw.codelibre.net> <46d6db660811190818r3aa2a392pda9106ac4a579cf0@mail.gmail.com> <20081120112708.GC22787@ravenclaw.codelibre.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Christian MICHON , git@vger.kernel.org To: Roger Leigh X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Nov 20 14:12:35 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L39Kh-0007de-JI for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:12:32 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754748AbYKTNLQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:11:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754730AbYKTNLQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:11:16 -0500 Received: from blue.stonehenge.com ([209.223.236.162]:5385 "EHLO blue.stonehenge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754715AbYKTNLP (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:11:15 -0500 Received: by blue.stonehenge.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 135C21DE25F; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:11:15 -0800 (PST) x-mayan-date: Long count = 12.19.15.15.8; tzolkin = 7 Lamat; haab = 11 Ceh In-Reply-To: <20081120112708.GC22787@ravenclaw.codelibre.net> (Roger Leigh's message of "Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:27:08 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.4 (berkeley-unix) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: >>>>> "Roger" == Roger Leigh writes: Roger> Except in this case I'm storing the content of *tarballs* (along with Roger> pristine-tar). I'm committing exactly what's in the tarball with Roger> no changes (this is a requirement). I can't change the source prior Roger> to commit. If you're not doing distributed source code development, why are you using git? It's hard to be angry at a screwdriver for not pounding in nails properly. Sounds like you want rsync or something. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion