Hi I recently converted a set of patches to a git repository. In order to use the correct timestamps my script used a 'faketime' solution I found here: http://www.code-wizards.com/projects/libfaketime/ I used a perl subroutine that takes a time (obtained by stat()ing the original patch or looking in logs) and then the normal 'system()' args. sub faketime_system { my $time=shift; $ENV{"LD_PRELOAD"}="/everything/devel/faketime/libfaketime-0.6/libfaketime.so.1"; $ENV{"FAKETIME_FMT"}='%s'; $ENV{'FAKETIME'}=$time; system @_; $ENV{"LD_PRELOAD"}=""; } so: $time=(stat("$tarfile"))[9]; faketime_system ($time, "tar xfj $tarfile"); or: $time=(stat("$patchfile"))[9]; faketime_system ($time, "zcat $patchfile | patch -f -p1"); faketime_system ($time, "git add ."); HTH someone else... David - 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
