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From: Geert Bosch <bosch@adacore.com>
Subject: Re: mod-times (was: keyword expansion)
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 14:13:43 -0400
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On Apr 25, 2005, at 13:56, tony.luck@intel.com wrote:
>> 	- Time stamp of the last modification of a file
>
> One way to do this would be to rip on some of the core fundamentals of 
> GIT
> and store the time that an object was created inside the object. E.g.
>
>    blob size secs-since-1970 ...
>
> Then "read-tree" could fill this into the cache, and checkout-cache 
> could
> set the mod-time on the file when it creates it, which would mean that 
> you
> could see the timestamp for a file simply by using "ls -l file".

Of course this negates the idea of content-based storage, since you
want two copies of the same content with different time-stamps to share
the same blob.

   -Geert