compat/mingw.c assigns the Windows file creation time [1] to Git's ctime
fields at line 591 and at line 705:
buf->st_ctime = filetime_to_time_t(&(fdata.ftCreationTime));
ftCreationTime > ftLastWriteTime is actually possible after copying a
file, so it makes sense to include this timestamp somehow in the Index,
but I think it would be better to use the maximum of ftLastWriteTime and
ftCreationTime here which is less confusing and closer to Unix's ctime:
buf->st_ctime = max(buf->st_mtime,
filetime_to_time_t(&(fdata.ftCreationTime));
-Marc
[1]
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365739(v=vs.85).aspx
