Re: timestamps not git-cloned

Hi,

On Fri, 28 Nov 2008, Robin Rosenberg wrote:

I recommend every new Git user to scan the FAQ. It's not just clone,
it's in everything git does in the file system. There is a very good 
reason git behaves this way in general, although clone could be
exception, but then we would have a ton of questions about that
inconsistency.

No, clone cannot be an exception.  The information is just not stored, and 
for a good reason: a file's timestamp is nothing you want to commit in 
source code management.  It just does not make sense at all.

Ciao,
Dscho