https://github.com/zvirja/git-sync-creation-date

Tool to set file creation date to the actual value based on git history
https://github.com/zvirja/git-sync-creation-date

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Tool to set file creation date to the actual value based on git history

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/zvirja/git-sync-creation-date
• Owner: zvirja
• License: mit
• Created: 2019-02-06T09:30:32.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-05-24T12:43:53.000Z (about 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-02-03T09:21:17.584Z (5 months ago)
• Language: C#
• Size: 43.9 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: Readme.md
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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# git-sync-creation-date

It's a dotnet tool to synchronize file creation date on file system with the commit history. Tool scans the commit history and extract creation date for each file (date when a particular file appeared for the first time).

It might be useful if your tooling relies on the file creation dates (e.g. to provide right copyright header).

# Installation

Tool is distributed as a dotnet tool. To install it you should have .NET Core 2.1 installed (or above). Then run the following command:

```

dotnet tool install -g git-sync-creation-date

```

# Usage

To run the tool just navigate to a directory which is a part of the repo (usual repository root), open command line and run the tool by name:

```

git-sync-creation-date

```

The tool will update creation date for all the files in the current and nested directories.

## Options

Run the tool with `--help` or just `-h` flag to see the possible options.