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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: preserving mtime
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:19:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fhjqrp$v14$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 473D63F9.4010201@inrim.it

Fabrizio Pollastri wrote:

> 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.

I don't quite understand. When git checks out copy, or switch branches,
or resets it does update only files which changed.

Git does not store mtime of files in tree object.
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-11-16 10:20 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
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 [this message]
2007-11-16 10:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-16 12:09 ` Erik Warendorph

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