Our use case: we commit some compiled objects to the repo, where compiling is either slow or requires software which is not always available. Since upgrading Git 2.26.3 -> 2.32.4 (as part of Alpine Linux OS upgrade) we are noticing a change in build behaviour. Now, after a "git clone" we find the Makefile intermittently attempting (and failing) some builds that are not intended. Indeed, Make is acting reasonably as the source file is sometimes marginally newer than the destination (both checked out by Git), example below. I've never had to consider consistency timestamps within a Git checkout until now. It's entirely possible there's _never_ a guarantee of consistency here. But then something has certainly changed in practice, as this fault has gone from never happening to now every couple of days. Imaginging I can't be the first person to encounter this, I searched for existing threads or docs, but overwhemingly the results were question of Git tracking the timestamps (as part of the commit) which this is not; it's consistency within one checkout. $ git clone --depth 1 file:///path/to/repo.git $ stat winner.jpeg File: winner.jpeg Size: 258243 Blocks: 520 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: fd07h/64775d Inode: 33696 Links: 1 Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 106/ luthier) Gid: ( 106/ luthier) Access: 2022-10-31 16:05:17.756858496 +0000 Modify: 2022-10-31 16:05:17.756858496 +0000 Change: 2022-10-31 16:05:17.756858496 +0000 Birth: - $ stat winner.svg File: winner.svg Size: 52685 Blocks: 112 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: fd07h/64775d Inode: 33697 Links: 1 Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 106/ luthier) Gid: ( 106/ luthier) Access: 2022-10-31 16:05:17.766859030 +0000 Modify: 2022-10-31 16:05:17.766859030 +0000 Change: 2022-10-31 16:05:17.766859030 +0000 Birth: - Elsewhere in the repository, it's clear the timestamps are not consistent: $ stat Makefile File: Makefile Size: 8369 Blocks: 24 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: fd07h/64775d Inode: 33655 Links: 1 Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 106/ luthier) Gid: ( 106/ luthier) Access: 2022-10-31 16:05:51.628660212 +0000 Modify: 2022-10-31 16:05:17.746857963 +0000 Change: 2022-10-31 16:05:17.746857963 +0000 Birth: - -- Mark
