[DGD] Microsoft & Github (Off Topic)

[Raymond Jennings]

Try debating that topic in #git on irc.freenode.net

On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 7:02 PM, Dread Quixadhal <quixadhal at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why can’t checking out a given commit set the file and/or directory involved to the timestamp of the commit?  For example, if you browse one of my GitHub repositories, such as https://github.com/quixadhal/fluffos , you will see the timestamps of each file along with each directory (which is the timestamp of the most recent file in it).
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> When doing a “git clone git at github.com:quixadhal/fluffos.git test”, every single file and directory has the timestamp of the time I did the clone.
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> There’s no reason for that.  The information is there.  Maybe this is a client side issue.
>
> And if the people who wrote the git protocol didn’t allow for extensions, they were extremely short-sighted.
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> On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 6:04 PM, Dread Quixadhal <quixadhal at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Likely a boon.
>>
>> Not only more money to develop it, but since they’ll use it internally, they’ll fix some of the annoyances it has.  The tricky part is extending it in such a way that other git software can just ignore the new features they’ll add.  Hopefully the git people thought of that.
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>> One feature I’d like is to have it preserve timestamps on both files and directories when cloning or unpacking.
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> That sounds like something that would require support from the core
> git protocol itself.
>
> For example, do tree objects support timestamps or just an association between
> filename and the sha1 of the associated object?
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> In a nutshell, a tag points to a commit, and a commit points to its
> parent commits and the tree representing the root directory.  Each
> tree object has a mapping between a name and a sha1 hash of the
> associated object.  If the object is a file, then it's a blob.  If
> it's a directory, then it's a tree.
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> Only the commit has timestamps associated with it AFAIK.
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> git has a specific protocol and internal structure.  You can't just
> randomly paste extensions onto it without wrecking compatibility.
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>> From: Blain
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>> Subject: [DGD] Microsoft & Github (Off Topic)
>>
>> So, Microsoft buying Github.  Boon or bane?
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