Re: git and mtime

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Roger Leigh <rleigh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Would it be possible for git to store the mtime of files in the tree?
> 
> This would make it possible to do this type of work in git, since it's
> currently a bit random as to whether it works or not.  This only
> started when I upgraded to an amd64 architecture from powerpc32,
> I guess it's maybe using high-resolution timestamps.

I don't think it would be done as in core change at all, or at least
soon.

You can use Metastore, or some custom clean/smudge gitattribute
filters with something like Metastore (or etckeeper) to store extra
metadata about files in your tree.

See http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
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