Sorry, i wrongly addressed my reply before (https://lore.kernel.org/git/20230322110309.760-1-reallyridilculous@xxxxxxxxx/) to rsbecker. Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Now what timestamp should "stash pop" give to the working tree files > in this case? The contents of the file probably is identical to the > timestamp of the working tree files immediately before "stash push" > was run. If we restore the original timestamp, because it is way > older than the build artifacts of your second build (which was done > after "stash push"), the build artifacts would not be recreated. The usecase for which i'd like to have the feature would avoid that because there would be only build artefacts from the time of "stash push".