How to recover mtime dates from git log: recover-mtime-dates-from-git.sh

recover-mtime-dates-from-git.sh

#!/bin/bash

git ls-tree `git rev-parse HEAD` -rt --full-tree | sed -r 's#\w+ \w+ \w+\s+##' | while read FILE
do
    TIME=$(git log --pretty=format:%cd -n 1 --date=iso "$FILE" 2>/dev/null)
    test -z "$TIME" && continue
#    TIME2=`echo $TIME | sed 's/-//g;s/ //;s/://;s/:/\./;s/ .*//'`

    echo "$FILE"
#    echo -n " - old mtime: "
#    date -r "$FILE" -Ins
#    echo " - new mtime: $TIME2"

    ## When you want to recover back the timestamps:
    touch -h -m -d "$TIME" "$FILE"
#    touch -h -m -t $TIME2 "$FILE"
done