Re: timestamps not git-cloned

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Chris Frey wrote:
>On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 01:06:00PM +0800, jidanni@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> I hate it when I get some latest WhizBang.tgz, only to untar it to
>> find all the files' dates the same, when in fact the README hasn't
>> been touched in seven years, but you can't tell that from ls -l. I
>> recall some content tracker was involved.

>If this is the important bit, perhaps git-archive could be changed
>to create tarballs with file timestamps based on their commit dates.

Based on the principle of least surprise, I'd consider this a rather good
idea.
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           Stephen R. van den Berg.

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