When dropping an unlocked file, preserve its mtime, which avoids git status
unncessarily running the clean filter on the file.
If the index file has close to the same mtime as a work tree file, git will
not trust the index to be up-to-date, and re-runs the clean filter
unncessarily. Preserving the mtime when depopulating a pointer file avoids
git status doing a little (or maybe a lot) of unncessary work.
There are other places that the mtime could be preserved, including other
places where pointer files are written perhaps, but also
populatePointerFile. But, I don't know of cases where those lead to git
status doing unncessary work, so I just fixed the one I'm aware of for now.