"Rick Liu" <rickliu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Can we use GIT's commit time as the mtime for all of files/folders when we do "git checkout"? No. That will screw up common practice of build based on file timestamps (e.g. make). You may be interested in "git archive $commit" which will set the file timestamps that of the commit object. -- 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