git-timesync

When you git clone a repository, the last modification timestamps of the created files are set to the current date and time. This script allows you to synchronize the last modification timestamps of the files in the working tree from the commit times of the Git repository.

Installation

Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/tst2005/git-timesync

or download the git-timesync file

wget https://github.com/tst2005/git-timesync/raw/master/bin/git-timesync

For it to be found by git, you need to install it in a directory in your $PATH. For user installation (no root needed, will only work for current user) we recommend ~/.local/bin. You can add the following to your .bashrc or .zshrc if you don't already have it configured.

export PATH=~/.local/bin:$PATH

Then just move git-timesync to ~/.local/bin/.

For system-wide installation, move it to something that's in the path of all users. We recommend /usr/local/bin/.

Usage

Make a fresh clone of a Git repository of your choice:

git clone GIT_REPOSITORY_URL

See which files are OK and which ones need to be synchronized (dry-run) with:

git timesync --dry-run

If you want to drop everything that is OK and show only the files which timestamp needs to be synchronized:

git timesync --dry-run --quiet

If you want to apply all the changes, use:

git timesync

If you want apply a change only to one file, use:

git timesync THE_WANTED_FILE

If you want to view the help message:

git timesync --help

License

The original author's did not answer after 6 years about the license of his code. Years after years, I almost rewrote the whole script and implement new feature and large improvement, then I decided of the license.

This projet is release under the MIT license.