Re: Git should preserve modification times at least on request

2018-02-22 Thread Derek Fawcus
gt; > > > I think that this would be The Wrong Thing to do. Agreed, but probably for a different reason. > I'm merely pointing out that if you have the use-case Derek Fawcus > describes you can get per-file mtimes via something similar to the the > hook method Theodore Ts

Re: Git should preserve modification times at least on request

2018-02-21 Thread Derek Fawcus
On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 10:22:36PM +0100, Peter Backes wrote: > > It is pretty annoying that git cannot, even if I know what I am doing, > and explicitly want it to, preserve the modification time. The use case I've come across where it would be of value is for code archeology, either importing

Re: space compression (again)

2005-04-15 Thread Derek Fawcus
On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 02:45:55PM -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > > - we already have wasted space due to the low-level filesystem (as > > opposed to "git") usually being block-based, which means that space > > utilization for small objects tends to suck. So you really want to > > prefer ob

Re: space compression (again)

2005-04-15 Thread Derek Fawcus
On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 01:19:30PM -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > Why are blobs per-file? [After all, Linus insists that files are an > illusion.] Why not just have 'chunks', and assemble *these* > into blobs (read, 'files')? A good chunk size would fit evenly into some > number of disk blo