[git-users] Keeping Timestamps

2017-06-05 Thread winserver2017
Hi, Is there an option or version of GIT with a database that keeps the last file stamp of committed files?? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an e

Re: [git-users] Keeping Timestamps

2017-06-05 Thread Mark Waite
On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 3:31 PM wrote: > Hi, Is there an option or version of GIT with a database that keeps the > last file stamp of committed files?? > > It depends what you mean by "file stamp". If "file stamp" means a cryptographically strong checksum of the contents of the file, then yes, t

Re: [git-users] Keeping Timestamps

2017-06-05 Thread Philip Oakley
tps://web.archive.org/web/20120518150852/http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2007/3/5/240536 Sorry. - Original Message - From: winserver2...@gmail.com To: Git for human beings Sent: Monday, June 05, 2017 10:31 PM Subject: [git-users] Keeping Timestamps Hi, Is there an

Re: [git-users] Keeping Timestamps

2017-06-05 Thread winserver2017
rant by Linus somewhere on that... > > > https://web.archive.org/web/20120518150852/http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2007/3/5/240536 > > Sorry. > > > ----- Original Message - > *From:* winser...@gmail.com > *To:* Git for human beings > *Sent:* Monday, Jun

Re: [git-users] Keeping Timestamps

2017-06-05 Thread winserver2017
Hi Mark, Sorry, I wasn't clear. I don't know *nix OSes much, but under Windows (NTFS), we have 3 file time stamps for each file (Creation, Last Read and Last Write). I think it would practical only to consider the last write time. I don't see any technical reason for not having it other the

Re: [git-users] Keeping Timestamps

2017-06-05 Thread Philip Oakley
e to be 100% right for all the people all of the time. - Original Message - From: winserver2...@gmail.com To: Git for human beings Cc: philipoak...@iee.org Sent: Monday, June 05, 2017 11:51 PM Subject: Re: [git-users] Keeping Timestamps Hi, Yes, I have seen this &qu

Re: [git-users] Keeping Timestamps

2017-06-05 Thread winserver2017
e. > > - Original Message - > *From:* winser...@gmail.com > *To:* Git for human beings > *Cc:* philip...@iee.org > *Sent:* Monday, June 05, 2017 11:51 PM > *Subject:* Re: [git-users] Keeping Timestamps > > Hi, Yes, I have seen this "rant" but its no

Re: [git-users] Keeping Timestamps

2017-06-05 Thread Michael
On 2017-06-05, at 4:39 PM, Philip Oakley wrote: > Hi, yes it can be awkward when different systems make different choices about > which feature they want to use as the indicator for what they really want to > look at. For git the sha1 object id (oid) is what tells you that it has > changed. I

Re: [git-users] Keeping Timestamps

2017-06-06 Thread winserver2017
On Monday, June 5, 2017 at 11:04:07 PM UTC-4, Michael Gersten wrote: > > > > Now, for data that has lost the "timestamp", is in a pack file, with no > recorded pack file? How about defaulting to the time of the earliest commit > that the file appears in? > So there is a pack process? If a g

Re: [git-users] Keeping Timestamps

2017-06-06 Thread Maurizio Vitale
t some 'irrelevant' metadata. >> https://confluence.atlassian.com/bbkb/preserving-file-timest >> amps-with-git-and-mercurial-781386524.html >> >> >> There's a rant by Linus somewhere on that... >> >> https://web.archive.org/web/20120518150852/http

Re: [git-users] Keeping Timestamps

2017-06-06 Thread Michael
On 2017-06-06, at 7:31 PM, Maurizio Vitale wrote: > Everybody else manage without restoring the timestamps, so it would be > probably easier if you described what you want to achieve. Here's the problem: Just because people "manage" without a feature doesn't mean the feature is wanted. Heck,