RE: standarize mtime when git checkout

Thanks René~ I'll use "git archive" command to create the tarball. Rick -Original Message- From: René Scharfe [mailto:rene.scha...@lsrfire.ath.cx] Sent: Monday, July 08, 2013 8:54 PM To: Rick Liu Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: standarize mtime when git checkout A

standarize mtime when git checkout

Hi, Currently when doing "git checkout" (either for a branch or a tag), if the file doesn't exist before, the file will be created using current datetime. This causes problem while trying to tar the git repository source files (excluding .git folder). The tar binary can be different even all of