Re: timestamps not git-cloned

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 01:06:00PM +0800, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:

I hate it when I get some latest WhizBang.tgz, only to untar it to
find all the files' dates the same, when in fact the README hasn't
been touched in seven years, but you can't tell that from ls -l. I
recall some content tracker was involved.

If this is the important bit, perhaps git-archive could be changed
to create tarballs with file timestamps based on their commit dates.

- Chris