From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Frey Subject: Re: timestamps not git-cloned Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 03:54:06 -0500 Message-ID: <20081129085406.GA20428@foursquare.net> References: <87tz9sv3rb.fsf@jidanni.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: dhruvakm@gmail.com, git@vger.kernel.org To: jidanni@jidanni.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Nov 29 09:57:41 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 1L6Le1-0000WU-1j for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 09:57:41 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751047AbYK2IyR (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Nov 2008 03:54:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751082AbYK2IyR (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Nov 2008 03:54:17 -0500 Received: from nic.NetDirect.CA ([216.16.235.2]:44996 "EHLO rubicon.netdirect.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750895AbYK2IyQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Nov 2008 03:54:16 -0500 X-Originating-Ip: 216.16.235.2 Received: from localhost (rubicon.netdirect.ca [216.16.235.2]) by rubicon.netdirect.ca (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id mAT8s6Rd021890; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 03:54:06 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87tz9sv3rb.fsf@jidanni.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-16.8, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, BAYES_00 -15.00) X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-From: X-Spam-Status: No Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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. - Chris