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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Peter Backes <rtc@helen.PLASMA.Xg8.DE>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git should preserve modification times at least on request
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 15:40:29 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqeflf1b82.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180220211634.GA15232@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Tue, 20 Feb 2018 16:16:34 -0500")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Modification times are a subset of the total metadata you might care
> about, so they are solving a much more general problem. Which may also
> partially answer your question about why this isn't built into git. The
> general problem gets much bigger when you start wanting to carry things
> like modes (which git doesn't actually track; we really only care about
> the executable bit) or extended attributes (acls, etc).

"modes" are interesting, especially when you think about group
permissions, as it would make you design how you store group and
owner, which in turn forces you to think how "peter" on one system
relates to "peter" on another system (answer: there generally isn't
any relationship) ;-)


  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-02-20 23:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-19 21:22 Git should preserve modification times at least on request Peter Backes
2018-02-19 21:58 ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-02-19 22:08   ` Peter Backes
2018-02-20  1:22     ` Theodore Ts'o
2018-02-20 10:46     ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-02-20 11:53       ` Peter Backes
2018-02-20 21:05       ` Peter Backes
2018-02-20 22:32         ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-02-20 22:48           ` Peter Backes
2018-02-21 21:30             ` Phillip Wood
2018-02-19 22:37   ` Randall S. Becker
2018-02-19 23:22     ` Hilco Wijbenga
2018-02-20 16:42       ` Hilco Wijbenga
2018-02-20 21:16 ` Jeff King
2018-02-20 22:05   ` Peter Backes
2018-02-21  9:48     ` Jacob Keller
2018-02-20 23:40   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2018-02-21 21:03 ` Derek Fawcus
2018-02-21 21:33   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-02-21 22:14     ` Peter Backes
2018-02-21 22:44       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-02-21 23:12         ` Peter Backes
2018-02-21 23:58           ` Randall S. Becker
2018-02-22  2:05             ` 'Peter Backes'
2018-02-26 10:56               ` Andreas Krey
2018-02-26 11:04                 ` 'Peter Backes'
2018-02-22 23:24         ` Derek Fawcus
2018-02-23 12:28       ` Konstantin Khomoutov

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