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).

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

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.

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