Re: Git checkout preserve timestamp?

Bill Lear [off-list ref] writes:

I move back to master branch. Git stores M as branchX:sourcefile.c
Git checks out the file, and stamps it with N. I do a make. No
recompilation happens.

Are you not describing a situation where git would modify a file
("move back to branchX"), and no recompilation happens (whereas it
should)?

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Matthieu