Subject: Re: timestamps not git-cloned

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:44:37 -0800 (PST)

Andreas Ericsson <[email-masked]> writes:

> I see a lot of ranting but no patches from you. Since you're the one
> with the itch, why not just submit a patch and see if distro packagers
> start using it?
> 
> Some words of advice though; Make it optional, or it'll be dropped on
> the floor. For bonus points, make it calculate timestamps only for a
> path-spec delimited set of files. That'll cut down expected runtime
> by a *huge* amount for something like the linux kernel.

I think the old idea of 'tree blame' (search archives) would be a good
interface for this feature... if you decide to write it.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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