NAME

       git-restore-mtime - Restore original modification time of files based on the date of the most recent
       commit that modified them

SYNOPSIS

       git-restore-mtime [-h] [--quiet] [--verbose] [--force] [--merge] [--first-parent]
                         [--skip-missing] [--no-directories] [--test] [--commit-time]
                         [--work-tree WORKDIR] [--git-dir GITDIR]
                         [pathspec [pathspec...]]

DESCRIPTION

       Restore original modification time of files based on the date of the most recent commit that modified
       them. Useful when generating release tarballs.

OPTIONS

   Positional arguments:
       pathspec
               only modify paths (dirs or files) matching PATHSPEC, relative to current directory. Default is to
               modify all non-ignored, tracked files.

   Optional arguments:
       -h, --help
               show help message and exit

       --quiet,-q
               suppress informative messages and summary statistics.

       --verbose,-v
               print additional information for each processed file.  Overwrites --quiet.

       --force,-f
               force execution on trees with uncommitted changes.

       --merge,-m
               include merge commits. Leads to more recent mtimes and more files per commit, thus with the same
               mtime (which may or may not be what you want). Including merge commits may lead to less commits
               being evaluated (all files are found sooner), which improves performance, sometimes
               substantially. But since merge commits are usually huge, processing them may also take longer,
               sometimes substantially. By default merge logs are only used for files missing from regular
               commit logs.

       --first-parent
               pass --first-parent to git whatchanged to hide the second parent from the merge commit logs. Only
               has any effect if --merge is also specified or --skip-missing is not specified and there were
               files not found in regular commit logs.

       --skip-missing,-s
               do not try to find missing files. If some files were not found in regular commit logs, by default
               it retries using merge commit logs for these files (if --merge was not used already). This option
               disables this behavior, which may slightly improve performance, but files found only in merge
               commits will not be updated.

       --no-directories,-D
               do not update directory mtime for files created, renamed or deleted in it. Note: just modifying a
               file will not update its directory mtime.

       --test,-t
               test run: do not actually update any file

       --commit-time,-c
               use commit time instead of author time

       --work-tree WORKDIR
               specify where the work tree is. Default for most repositories is current directory.

       --git-dir GITDIR
               specify where the git repository is. Default for most repositories <work-tree>/.git

SEE ALSO

       https://github.com/MestreLion/git-tools

AUTHOR

       Rodrigo Silva (MestreLion) linux@rodrigosilva.com

                                                   2016-01-31                               GIT-RESTORE-MTIME(1)