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| author |  Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2011-03-13 17:42:07 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2011-03-13 17:42:07 -0400 |
| commit | 61afcd2d16c27430f1a6c6ae5cd468b16243c966 (patch) | |
| tree | 5eaf6a06826332e71a5d6902bc60ae32e1141db1 | |
| parent | 23649f3f9066939b7b035ca08cd9fc7a5657685c (diff) | |
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/bugs/softlink_atime.mdwn | 7 |
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diff --git a/doc/bugs/softlink_atime.mdwn b/doc/bugs/softlink_atime.mdwn index ad91cf8a9..e60b8ec98 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/softlink_atime.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/softlink_atime.mdwn @@ -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]] |