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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: standarize mtime when git checkout
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 15:03:05 -0700
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"Rick Liu" <rickliu@broadcom.com> writes:

> Can we use GIT's commit time as the mtime for all of files/folders when we do "git checkout"?

No.  That will screw up common practice of build based on file
timestamps (e.g. make).

You may be interested in "git archive $commit" which will set the file
timestamps that of the commit object.