[DGD] Microsoft & Github (Off Topic)

[Dread Quixadhal]

If I’m pulling an old version, I *want* the timestamp to be the time that version was last edited.  If you can’t do a “make clean”, after doing so, perhaps you should learn how to user your build system properly?

In normal use, your changes will have newer timestamps the other files, it’s only when you are checking out a new copy of a repository, or intentionally replacing a local file with an older version, that you would have older timestamps… and in both of those cases, you should WANT that behavior.

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From: Brian Gernhardt
Sent: Monday, June 4, 2018 18:56
To: All about DGD and Hydra
Subject: Re: [DGD] Microsoft & Github (Off Topic)



> On Jun 4, 2018, at 9:04 PM, Dread Quixadhal <quixadhal at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> One feature I’d like is to have it preserve timestamps on both files and directories when cloning or unpacking.

That is a deliberate non-feature of git.  For `make`, and most other build systems, if you change the timestamp of a source file to be older you won't trigger a rebuild of the object file.  You need the modification date of the file to reflect when it was changed, not when that version of the file was created.

~~ Brian


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