I understand the default git behaviour of updating the modification time every time it changes a file, but there are times when I want to restore a file's original modification time.
Is there a way I can tell git to do this?
(As an example, when working on a large project, I made some changes to configure.ac, found out that autotools doesn't work on my system, and wanted to restore configure.ac's to its original contents and modification time so that make doesn't try to update configure with my broken autotools).