From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ronan Keryell Subject: Re: Branches & directories Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2011 19:31:57 +0200 Message-ID: <87botznvua.fsf@an-dro.info.enstb.org> References: <4E889813.8070205@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Hilco Wijbenga , Kyle Moffett , Michael Witten , Junio C Hamano , Evan Shelhamer , Git Mailing List To: Robin Rosenberg X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Oct 02 19:46:54 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RAQ7n-0007jH-SE for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Oct 2011 19:46:52 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753736Ab1JBRqs convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Oct 2011 13:46:48 -0400 Received: from minou.info.enstb.org ([193.50.97.146]:60390 "EHLO minou.info.enstb.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753724Ab1JBRqq convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Oct 2011 13:46:46 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 868 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sun, 02 Oct 2011 13:46:46 EDT Received: from an-dro.info.enstb.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minou.info.enstb.org (8.14.4/8.14.4/Debian-2) with ESMTP id p92HVxtH015861; Sun, 2 Oct 2011 19:32:01 +0200 In-Reply-To: <4E889813.8070205@gmail.com> (Robin Rosenberg's message of "Sun, 02 Oct 2011 18:57:55 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: >>>>> On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 18:57:55 +0200, Robin Rosenberg said: Robin> Hilco Wijbenga skrev 2011-08-22 22.10: >> [...] I just wish there was at least an option to keep the >> timestamp (and possibly other such things). Even Subversion can >> do that... ;-) After all, not everybody uses C& make. Robin> What tools do you use that need the benefits from retaining Robin> timestamps? The only one I can think of is clearmake, but Robin> then that tool goes with another SCM. Eclipse, for example, Robin> will be just as confused by timestamps that travel backwards Robin> in time, as make is. I think of tools called "humans", very common indeed on Earth. :-) The reward of git success is that it is not only used to develop the Linux kernel. :-) We use also git as a very smart repositories to store administrative documents. It is very convenient to look at the real modification or creation dates to figure out some historical aspects for example. metastore is a nice tool providing a begin of this on top of git (or whatever) but : - this is not very convenient, needing to deal manually with these aspects ; - the metadata is binary and not textual (=C3=A0 la YAML ?) so we loose= the classical textual merging candies when conflict arises on metadata (ouch). It is one of my future project to do a more textual version of metastore, but I'm afraid it is an unbound future... :-/ --=20 Ronan KERYELL |\/ Phone: +1 408 844 HPC0 HPC Project, Inc. |/) Cell: +33 613 143 766 5201 Great America Parkway #3241 K Ronan.Keryell@hpc-project.com Santa Clara, CA 95054 |\ skype:keryell USA | \ http://hpc-project.com