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From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
To: Fabrizio Pollastri <f.pollastri@inrim.it>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: preserving mtime
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:15:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <473D6DC6.8040804@op5.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <473D63F9.4010201@inrim.it>

Fabrizio Pollastri wrote:
> Hi all,
> is it possible to tell git to preserve the file modification time in a 
> checked out copy? It is useful when managing web files, where mtime is 
> tested by spiders for download decisions.

No. Doing so would seriously break build-systems. If you want you can
have a post-checkout hook that sets the mtime on all the files though.
You should be able to parse the time the commit being checked out was
made from HEAD.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson@op5.se
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-16 10:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-16  9:33 preserving mtime Fabrizio Pollastri
2007-11-16 10:15 ` Andreas Ericsson [this message]
2007-11-17 18:22   ` Wayne Davison
2007-11-18  8:45     ` Mike Hommey
2007-11-18  9:34       ` Martin Langhoff
2007-11-18 18:47         ` David Brown
2007-11-18 20:36           ` Martin Langhoff
2007-11-18 21:44             ` David Brown
2007-11-18  9:40       ` Jan Hudec
2007-11-18 10:42         ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-11-19 14:38     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-16 10:19 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-11-16 10:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-16 12:09 ` Erik Warendorph

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