Hello, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Does everybody have "cp -p" to preserve the file timestamps on > his/her platform? I am assuming this is safe (it is in POSIX), > but please raise hand if that is not a case for you. Solaris[1] has two different "cp"s[2]. From cp(1): [...] [/usr/bin/cp] does not fail if unable to preserve extended attributes, modification and access time, or permission modes. [...] [/usr/xpg4/bin/cp] does not fail if unable to preserve extended attributes. If unable to duplicate the modification and access time or the permission modes, cp prints a diagnostic message to stderr and return a non-zero exit status. There is yet an other difference when -@ is specified. The complete man page can be found at docs.sun.com[2]. Best regards Uwe [1] in my case Solaris 10 = SunOS 5.10 and Solaris 9 = SunOS 5.9 [2] http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-5165/6mbb0m9dm?a=view -- Uwe Zeisberger http://www.google.com/search?q=0+degree+Celsius+in+kelvin - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html