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Dear Maintainer,
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* What led up to the situation?
- My emacs is configured to list most-recently-modified files first in
dired. I set this up years ago, and it has been a game changer. It
is so cool to let chaff drift off to the bottom of a dired buffer.
- This makes it easy to drill down into recent work. For example, my
current work is on
~/<employer>/projects/2021-01-04-Rerun so I expect to be
able to open ~/<employer> and then press f a few times to be editing the
most recent work there.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
As a workaround, I 'touched' the directory of the 2021-01-04 project.
* What was the outcome of this action?
An hour later, the old project again shows as 'touched'/modified today!
WTF? Opening it, I instantly see that its '.git' was touched on
Mar 1 at 10:00.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
I expected the old project's .git directory to show as not modified for some
weeks, because I have not been working on it at all.
This has the additional unpleasant effect of having every single .git
directory (about a hundred of these, most totally inactive) show up as
modified
every time I back up the file system using rsync.
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ii patch 2.7.6-3+deb10u1
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pn git-doc <none>
pn git-el <none>
pn git-email <none>
ii git-gui 1:2.20.1-2+deb10u3
pn git-mediawiki <none>
pn git-svn <none>
ii gitk 1:2.20.1-2+deb10u3
pn gitweb <none>
--
James E. Powell, MS
Pronouns: he/him/his
Applied Physics PhD Candidate
Department of Physics
Portland State University
Home page: http://web.pdx.edu/~powellj
Office: SRTC 409B Phone: +1-503-725-8515
