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Back dating Git commits based on file modification dates
I fell down a bit of a rabbit hole this morning. In trying to figure out where the idea of celebrating World Wide Web Day on August 1st came from I ran across Tim Berner-Lee's original code for the WorldWideWeb application for NeXT on the W3C's website:
It's served up as a browseable Apache directory listing, but that's not the most delightful way to browse code - clicking a link to a.m file triggers a download, for example. I decided to copy the code over to a GitHub repository, in order to browse it more easily with syntax highlighting and the like. This gave me a directory full of files... and to my delight they included the correct last modified dates, according to ls -lah:
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