Il 07/06/2017 00:38, Graeme Geldenhuys ha scritto:
You are the second person I hear say that. Why is preserving timestamps important? What use is there for it?
One of the important things of programming, both for economical reasons and for better quality, is to be able to reuse code modules. Timestamps provide you the ability to recognise at a glance which modules are unchanged, old, thoroughly tested ones, and which ones are newer or modified. No GIT command is as fast as ls -lrt *.c or ls -lrt *.pas. Moreover, once a program is deployed, a preserved timestamp provides an intrinsic automatic version control. Again faster and safer than any tag, which requires manual intervention, and can be error prone. If you google for git timestamp or git metadata, you'll see how the matter is considered important by quite a number of people.
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