There is a tool called metastore meant specifically to use with vcs hooks to save and restore file metadata.
https://github.com/przemoc/metastore -Michel On Feb 23, 2017 9:52 AM, "Alexander Burger" <a...@software-lab.de> wrote: > Hi Jakob, Rowan, > > thanks for the good hints! > > > "alea iacta est". However - just in case you are not already aware - > > since version 2.2.2 git now only updates modification times on > > *changed* files during checkout (see > > https://github.com/git/git/commit/c5326bd62b7e168ba1339dacb7ee81 > 2d0fe98c7c), > > I see. Good to know. I suppose, however, that if you clone a whole new > repo you > won't get the original timestamps of the whole tree (as you would from a > TGZ). > > > > checkout hook to force a full build after checkout. It was years ago, > > and I can't find them now that I search for them, but I remember it > > was not too difficult to implement (and I'll keep an eye out for them > > Yes, did so too, around 2008 for SVN. But such tricks are a cludge. > > I won't use such a repo based system here. Period. I live on incremental > snapshots which I take from my whole home directory tree several times a > day, > with statistics and inspection tools, and other scripts. Each of thess > snapshots > is fully complete, and has the environment from that moment (not only > source > files explicitly checked in, but also temporary files, databases, backups > and > whatever). Forcing my working style to the limitations of a repo would be a > drawback. > > > But, *of course*, nobody will be stopped to do with PicoLisp whatever he > likes. > Anybody can build a repo (as some people here already did), and > communicate on > in whatever platform. I just don't see that *I* have to do it. > > ♪♫ Alex > -- > UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe >
