On 2014-11-13 05.45, Patrick Hemmer wrote: > The request is to allow git to set the file modification time on > checkout to the commit-author-date of the commit which last modified the > file. > Yes I know this is in the FAQ, but the FAQ entry is missing an > increasingly common use case: docker. > When docker builds an image, it generates layers of images based on each > build step. Adding a file would be a build step, and for this action it > generates a hash based on the file modification time & content. Why do they do this? The file content is the only thing that matters. The other thing is to use a hook, utilizing test-chmtime from test-chmtime.c -- 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