From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: preserving mtime Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:19:32 +0100 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <473D63F9.4010201@inrim.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Nov 16 11:20:15 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IsyJ4-0008SO-M3 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:20:15 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755685AbXKPKT6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Nov 2007 05:19:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753267AbXKPKT5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Nov 2007 05:19:57 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:50711 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756130AbXKPKT5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Nov 2007 05:19:57 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IsyIb-0003XA-Vz for git@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:19:45 +0000 Received: from aabk102.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl ([83.4.36.102]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:19:45 +0000 Received: from jnareb by aabk102.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:19:45 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: aabk102.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl Mail-Copies-To: Jakub Narebski User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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