Re: Git checkout preserve timestamp?

[Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org>]

Johannes Schindelin writes:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Michael Poole wrote:
>
>> I have not found a git workflow that makes me entirely happy, but I 
>> suspect I just don't know the magic words.
>
> So, what do you want to do?

I want to have several local directories -- including build products
and configuration files that are neither build products nor revision
controlled -- that correspond to certain branches of one project.
(Sometimes I have several trees for a single branch, to handle
compile-time alternatives.)  I do not much care whether there is a
separate source tree for each of these or not.

When I switch from working on one branch to another, I do not want
file timestamps to be any later than the corresponding object was
changed in the repository.

When I change configuration options (including which branch(es) go to
which remote(s)), I want to make that change in one $GIT_DIR rather
than in one $GIT_DIR for each branch.

As a lower priority, I would like a fetch on any of the branches to
have results that are visible to all my local copies without more
network traffic.

The first two goals are neatly solved by having several local clones.
The third and fourth are where I get lost.

Michael Poole