Am 23.07.2015 um 16:53 schrieb Konstantin Khomoutov: > On Thu, 23 Jul 2015 11:14:11 +0200 > Konrád Lőrinczi <[email protected]> wrote: > > [...] >> I accept these solutions as workarounds, but the real solution would >> be: Dev suggestions: >> 1) Add a --force-reread option to git status, so user can force >> reread tree. git status --force-reread >> >> 2) Add status.force-reread (true or false) option to .git/config so >> user can set this variable permanently for a repo. >> status.force-reread = false (should be default) >> >> Could be possible to implement 1) and 2) features to next git release? > > Could you explain what's your real use case with preserving mtimes > while changing the files? I mean, implementing "mtime-stability" > in your tools appears to be a good excersize in programming but what > real-world problem does it solve? >
I'd like to add that this is not a git-specific problem: resetting mtime on purpose will fool lots of programs, including backup software, file synchronization tools (rsync, xcopy /D), build systems (make), and web servers / proxies (If-Modified-Since requests). So you would typically reset mtime if you *want* programs to ignore the changes. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
