Fabrizio Pollastri wrote: > is it possible to tell git to preserve the file modification time in a > checked out copy? It is useful when managing web files, where mtime is > tested by spiders for download decisions. I don't quite understand. When git checks out copy, or switch branches, or resets it does update only files which changed. Git does not store mtime of files in tree object. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - 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