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Thanks for the compliments! :)

As for dir mtime, it's already in the source code TO-DO list, but to be honest it can take forever for me to code new features for this script.

Still, dir mtime usually works differently than your suggestion: modifying a file does not change the dir mtime, only adding, renaming or deleting a file does. So the latest file mtime is not necessarily the mtime of its dir: that can be earlier (if latest file was just modified) or later (if a file was deleted). Properly coding this behavior can be quite tricky, specially considering deletions, which so far I've ignored.

Also I think it would require a set of all paths in repo (respecting the pathspec filter, if any), similar to the file set, so any given dir is only touched once.

Your suggestion seems a lot simpler to code, and it can be done with a simple post-processing bash script. But, being different than the standard dir mtime, is there a valid use-case for that?

Anyway, patches welcome! :D

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Nothing like user request to motivate me to dive in coding again :)

So, I've added a --directories|-d option to handle directories... care to test it? Also, if you can throughly test it in several repos, and there is no major performance hit, I may even make this option be default.

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Duuuuuuude you rock!

Yeah, I was worried about the impossibility of deriving the true dir mtime, but I figured anytime in the past is more useful than "right now" after cloning a repo.

I'll make sure to give it a test when I get into work tomorrow

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On Apr 10, 2014, at 5:22 PM, Rodrigo Silva [email protected] wrote:

Nothing like user request to motivate me to dive in coding again :)

So, I've added a --directories|-d option to handle directories... care to test it? Also, if you can throughly test it in several repos, and there is no major performance hit, I may even make this option be default.

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