mirrors/git-annex
2
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull requests Projects Releases Packages 1 Wiki Activity Actions

response

Browse source
This commit is contained in:
Joey Hess 2011-03-13 17:42:07 -04:00
parent 23649f3f90
commit 61afcd2d16
1 changed files with 7 additions and 0 deletions
Show stats Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

7
doc/bugs/softlink_atime.mdwn
View file

@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
When adding files to git annex, softlinks are created with current atime (and ctime, etc). Instead, the atime of the added file should be used and added to the meta-data, restoring it everywhere an annex is cloned to.
Optionally, editing the meta-data should change the times in all annexes.
> Thing is, git does not preserve file timestamps much at all.
> It's not uncommon for a `git checkout` to or `git update` to
> mess up timestamps. This is why things like metastore exist (and
> metastore should work ok with git annexed files too). Trying to
> make annexed file symlinks have better timestamp handling than regular
> files in git seems pointless. --[[Joey]]