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'o described to

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