[fpc-other] GIT versioning server on Raspberry Pi?
Bo Berglund
bo.berglund at gmail.com
Wed Jun 7 08:03:23 CEST 2017
On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 12:30:58 +0200, Giuliano Colla
<giuliano.colla at fastwebnet.it> wrote:
>Il 06/06/2017 10:40, Bo Berglund ha scritto:
>> Relevant files compare fine
>> except they are not the correct timestamp.
>
>This is one of the down sides of GIT: it doesn't preserve timestamps.
>
>As a workaround you may write a small script which will touch each file
>of the newly created repository with the time stamps of the original
>folders. Here enclosed a python script which I used for that purpose;
>you may see if it fits your needs.
>
>After that, if you need to preserve timestamps, you may take advantage
>either of git-restore-time (which will change the timestamps to the
>commit time):
>
>https://github.com/MestreLion/git-tools
>
>or of the metastore utilities:
>
>https://github.com/przemoc/metastore
>
>which adds an additional metadata file, where original timestamps are
>stored, and used to properly set them at each commit, and to restore
>them at each checkout, pull, etc.
>
Thanks, but I'm not that paranoid about time stamps. It really was
just an observation.
--
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden
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