Re: original file dates lost
On 26 February 2011 10:18, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 2011-02-26 00:33 +0100, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
>
>> Why can't the dates on /usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/etc/* etc. be preserved?
>> I can't believe all those files were really modified just yesterday.
>
> It seems Julien creates the tarballs with "git archive … <COMMIT>", and
> in this case all files have the commit time of <COMMIT> (see
> git-archive(1)).
>
> Sven
>
So there is make-dist script, bzr export, git archive...... "welcome
to the wonderful world of DVCS where nobody cares about the good old
Automake's dist targers ;-)"
When dak supports building out of git branches everything will just work (tm)
/me finished trying to be funny
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