From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Stephen R. van den Berg" Subject: Re: timestamps not git-cloned Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 10:22:31 +0100 Message-ID: <20081129092231.GA32630@cuci.nl> References: <87tz9sv3rb.fsf@jidanni.org> <20081129085406.GA20428@foursquare.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: jidanni@jidanni.org, dhruvakm@gmail.com, git@vger.kernel.org To: Chris Frey X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Nov 29 10:33:09 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 1L6MCI-0008NW-7z for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 10:33:06 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751047AbYK2Jbo (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Nov 2008 04:31:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751082AbYK2Jbo (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Nov 2008 04:31:44 -0500 Received: from aristoteles.cuci.nl ([212.125.128.18]:44166 "EHLO aristoteles.cuci.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751041AbYK2Jbn (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Nov 2008 04:31:43 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 551 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 04:31:43 EST Received: by aristoteles.cuci.nl (Postfix, from userid 500) id 619565465; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 10:22:31 +0100 (CET) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081129085406.GA20428@foursquare.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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?