Daniel,
Do you use the Git LFS (Large File System) add-on?, are you on Windows
or Linux?, and what tools need mtime (or is it something about the
process of using the tool..)?
The Git viewpoint is that the mtime shouldn't be important for the
version storage & control aspects, though it maybe for the external
compiler tooling, so they do tend to try to keep the mtime/ctime consistent.
I'm not aware of specific capability to do what you ask, but it may be
worth discussing this on the git mailing list "Git List
<git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>" (which only accepts 100% plain text, no HTML,
messages). The mailing list archive is at
https://public-inbox.org/git/?q= where you can search for mtime/ctime
discussions.
There will be a Git developer conference at the end of the month, so it
is worth raining it soonish, even if it becomes an add on the fires via
a post checkout hook that updates the mtimes from a stored file of
'true' mtimes (plus updates the index's view of those mtimes.
Philip
On 05/01/2019 13:33, Daniel Fanjul wrote:
Hi all,
I have some large files tracked in git and I have to track their mtime
because of some legacy software. With another tool I save and restore
their mtime. When I restore their mtime git status rereads the files
to update the mtime in the index. I would like to improve that because
there are too many files, the whole I/O is too slow and the whole
process is triggered too often.
I would like a way to tell git to checkout a file and set a given
mtime at the same time so the index is updated with the mtime but the
file is not rewritten because the working copy is clean. This would
solve my problem. Do you know a way to do this?
Do you know any other way to handle this properly?
Thanks in advance, and happy new year,
Daniel.
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