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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git and mtime
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:29:43 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3abbvlu9a.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081119113752.GA13611@ravenclaw.codelibre.net>

Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net> writes:

> Would it be possible for git to store the mtime of files in the tree?
> 
> This would make it possible to do this type of work in git, since it's
> currently a bit random as to whether it works or not.  This only
> started when I upgraded to an amd64 architecture from powerpc32,
> I guess it's maybe using high-resolution timestamps.

I don't think it would be done as in core change at all, or at least
soon.

You can use Metastore, or some custom clean/smudge gitattribute
filters with something like Metastore (or etckeeper) to store extra
metadata about files in your tree.

See http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-19 13:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-19 11:37 git and mtime Roger Leigh
2008-11-19 12:22 ` Matthias Kestenholz
2008-11-20  8:38   ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-20 11:20     ` Roger Leigh
2008-11-20 12:48       ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-20 13:12         ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-19 12:31 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-11-19 12:37 ` Arafangion
2008-11-19 14:54   ` Matthieu Moy
2008-11-20  8:39     ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-20 10:34     ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-11-20 10:53       ` Matthieu Moy
2008-11-19 13:29 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2008-11-19 16:18 ` Christian MICHON
2008-11-20 10:35   ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-11-20 11:27   ` Roger Leigh
2008-11-20 13:06     ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-20 14:15       ` Roger Leigh
2008-11-20 14:50         ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-20 15:19           ` Roger Leigh
2008-11-20 15:33             ` Kyle Moffett
2008-11-20 15:37             ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-20 18:36             ` Matthias Kestenholz
2008-11-20 13:11     ` Randal L. Schwartz
2008-11-20 13:40       ` Roger Leigh
2008-11-20 17:59     ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-11-20 19:24       ` Joey Hess
2008-11-20 13:21 ` martin f krafft
2008-11-20 13:35   ` Roger Leigh
2008-11-20 13:59     ` martin f krafft
2008-11-20 15:56       ` Samuel Tardieu
2008-11-20 14:07     ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-11-20 14:22       ` Roger Leigh

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