On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 08:49:39PM +0100, Ronan Keryell wrote: > After heavily using git for code development, we plan to use it for > administrative storage and I need to keep the modification date > of the files. > [...] > So I'm envisioning different solutions: > > - it is already done. I have missed this. :-) But would be great. :-) Nope. The tree format does not have a date field. > - giving up. Not an option :-) Right. :) > - it is added to git core functions because it is quite useful for some > people. Too time-consuming for me since I'm not a git developer... But > someone else could do this... Nope. That would require changing one of the fundamental data structures of git (the tree object) and is not likely to happen for a variety of reasons (mostly it becomes a performance hit and a compatibility issue when the majority of people don't even care about this issue). > - add this concept aside. For example, just as there are .gitignore or > .gitattributes files, we could have a .gitdates that would store in a > human-readable manner the modification time of the files in its > directory. Yep, this is a good solution. Check out metastore: http://david.hardeman.nu/software.php -Peff -- 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