From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
To: jidanni@jidanni.org
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: timestamps not git-cloned
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:58:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200811281358.24592.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ej0wwptn.fsf@jidanni.org>
fredag 28 november 2008 03:24:04 skrev jidanni@jidanni.org:
> Gentlemen, it's my first git-clone,
> $ git-clone git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-fso/files.git
> and I'm disappointed to find the timestamps of the files created are
> all now and not the date of last edit. At least mention something
> about this on the git-clone man page.
I recommend every new Git user to scan the FAQ. It's not just clone,
it's in everything git does in the file system. There is a very good
reason git behaves this way in general, although clone could be
exception, but then we would have a ton of questions about that
inconsistency.
-- robin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-28 12:59 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
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 [this message]
2008-11-28 13:20 ` Johannes Schindelin
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