Re: Set file modification time on checkout

2014-11-12 Thread Torsten Bögershausen
On 2014-11-13 05.45, Patrick Hemmer wrote: > The request is to allow git to set the file modification time on > checkout to the commit-author-date of the commit which last modified the > file. > Yes I know this is in the FAQ, but the FAQ entry is missing an > increasingly common use case: docker. >

Set file modification time on checkout

2014-11-12 Thread Patrick Hemmer
The request is to allow git to set the file modification time on checkout to the commit-author-date of the commit which last modified the file. Yes I know this is in the FAQ, but the FAQ entry is missing an increasingly common use case: docker. When docker builds an image, it generates layers of im