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Re: [Quilt-dev] Re: Why --no-timestamps by default?
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Peter Korsgaard |
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Re: [Quilt-dev] Re: Why --no-timestamps by default? |
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Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:01:02 +0100 |
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>>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Gruenbacher <address@hidden> writes:
Andreas> On Wednesday 04 November 2009 03:41:40 pm Jean Delvare wrote:
>> What is the rationale for having --no-timestamps in QUILT_DIFF_ARGS
>> and QUILT_REFRESH_ARGS by default?
Andreas> Most of the time, those timestamps are not used. See git as an
Andreas> example; there you also don't have file timestamps. Also,
Andreas> removing patches in quilt will restore the old files, but not
Andreas> their timestamps: instead, the timestamps will be set to the
Andreas> current time. This allows to push and pop patches in a source
Andreas> tree and build the "before" and "after" states without
Andreas> confusing tool like make.
Indeed. And if you store the patch series under version control, then
the changing timestamp noise just gets in the way.
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Bye, Peter Korsgaard