On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Edgar Toernig wrote: > > Well, I would simply look at the filesystem's mtime of the commit object > resp. the pack containing the commit. IMHO good enough most of the time. Nope. The moment you repack, you're toast. And if you don't repack, please don't use large repositories. Here's a real-world example: in the week since 2.6.18 was released, the kernel has gotten over twenty _thousand_ new objects. If you don't repack, you'll have lost about 40MB of diskspace. It adds up. So yes, mtime works for a bit. And then it stops working ;) Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: 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