Re: [PATCH] archive: add --mtime

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

My biggest concern with the patch I showed is that it gives no escape
hatch if people don't like the change.

Yeah.

Like I said earlier, I don't
think anybody has grounds to complain about the byte-for-byte output
hash changing, as it would be changing once per second. But they may
complain about the cosmetic problem.

Yeah, they may complain "it no longer is possible when I took the
archive out of a tree".  To be honest, I didn't think of that line
of complaints before.

The more obvious one at the Git level is to have
"--current-mtime" or something to get the old behavior. But at that
point, you may as well support "--mtime=now", which is the same amount
of work, and much more flexible.

Yup.  Let's merge it down to 'next' then.

Thanks.