Re: preserving mtime

Hi,

On Sat, 17 Nov 2007, Wayne Davison wrote:

On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 11:15:34AM +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

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is it possible to tell git to preserve the file modification time in
a checked out copy?

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Fabrizio Pollastri wrote:
No. Doing so would seriously break build-systems.

I wish that the initial clone would set the modification time to the
commit time.

Could you stop this discussion, please?  This subject comes up every once 
in a while, and in the meantime the archives contain more sane 
explanations why this would be a bad behaviour of git than I could tell 
off of my head.

So no, this is not a sane behaviour.

If you _must_ inist on this behaviour, write your own hook, don't tell 
anybody about it, especially not when things break.

Hth,
Dscho