Hi, On Fri, 28 Nov 2008, Robin Rosenberg wrote: > I recommend every new Git user to scan the FAQ. It's not just clone, > it's in everything git does in the file system. There is a very good > reason git behaves this way in general, although clone could be > exception, but then we would have a ton of questions about that > inconsistency. No, clone cannot be an exception. The information is just not stored, and for a good reason: a file's timestamp is nothing you want to commit in source code management. It just does not make sense at all. Ciao, Dscho -- 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