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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: vogt@linux•vnet.ibm.com
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Setting file timestamps to commit time (git-checkout)
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2013 12:35:38 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqsiu1yd7p.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131209112528.GA5309@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (Dominik Vogt's message of "Mon, 9 Dec 2013 12:25:28 +0100")

Dominik Vogt <vogt@linux•vnet.ibm.com> writes:

> Me and some colleagues work on gcc in lots of different branches.
> For each branch there is a separate build directory for each
> branch, e.g. build-a, build-b and build-c.  Let's assume that all
> branches are identical at the moment.  If a file in branch a is
> changed that triggers a complete rebuild of gcc (e.g.
> <target>.opt), rebuilding in build-a takes about an hour.  Now,
>  when I switch to one of the other branches, said file is not
> identical anymore and stamped with the _current_ time during
> checkout.  Although branch b and c have not changed at all, they
> will now be rebuilt completely because the timestamp on that files
> has changed.

I am not quite sure I follow your set-up.  Do you have three working
trees connected to a repository (via contrib/workdir/git-new-workdir
perhaps), each having a checkout of its own branch?  And in one
working directory that has build-a checked out, a new commit touches
one file, <target>.opt, to make a new commit:

Before:

    ---o---o---X
               ^ refs/heads/build-a
                 refs/heads/build-b
                 refs/heads/build-c

After:
                   v refs/heads/build-a
    ---o---o---X---Y
               ^ refs/heads/build-b
                 refs/heads/build-c

Because you said that branch b and c hasn't changed at all, I do not
see how your build-b and/or build-c directories become dirty.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-09 20:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-09 11:25 Setting file timestamps to commit time (git-checkout) Dominik Vogt
2013-12-09 20:35 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2013-12-10  8:35   ` Dominik Vogt
2013-12-10 19:02     ` Andreas Schwab
2013-12-11  7:37       ` Dominik Vogt
2013-12-11  1:39     ` Constantine A. Murenin
2013-12-09 20:48 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-12-10  8:46   ` Dominik Vogt
2013-12-10 10:34     ` Duy Nguyen
2013-12-11  1:08       ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-12-11  1:01     ` Jonathan Nieder

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