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From: Konstantin Khomoutov <kostix@bswap.ru>
To: git-users@googlegroups.com
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [git-users] git checkout file with custom mtime
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2019 19:20:45 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190109162045.4mit42qvnz6fpb3j@tigra> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPktr3k6GmYkTE9=0jcs8+4BEeeAnvQa6daxnwcqTwrL91Y-ug@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Jan 05, 2019 at 10:44:47PM +0100, Daniel Fanjul wrote:
> I'm on Ubuntu. I do not use LFS. I track mods and saved games of
> Skyrim with git, TESV.exe sorts the saved games only by their mtime. I
> know it is not the most usual use case for git.
> 
> I agree with that viewpoint and I like the way git works right now, I
> do not want to change that. Checking out the saved games and then
> fixing the mtime works but forces a lot of unneeded I/O.

You might find this overview of git-annex vs git lfs useful:
https://lwn.net/Articles/774125/

Also see this recent thread on the Git list:
https://public-inbox.org/git/79fd2b4e-243c-a9f5-3485-2954fb0f50ef@aixigo.de/


  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-09 16:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <951cafaa-877b-4815-862f-5ffc43e6976a@googlegroups.com>
2019-01-05 20:35 ` [git-users] git checkout file with custom mtime Philip Oakley
2019-01-05 21:44   ` Daniel Fanjul
2019-01-09 16:20     ` Konstantin Khomoutov [this message]
2019-01-09 22:57       ` Daniel Fanjul

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