Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? - My emacs is configured to list most-recently-modified files first in dired. I set this up years ago, and it has been a game changer. It is so cool to let chaff drift off to the bottom of a dired buffer. - This makes it easy to drill down into recent work. For example, my current work is on ~/<employer>/projects/2021-01-04-Rerun so I expect to be able to open ~/<employer> and then press f a few times to be editing the most recent work there. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? As a workaround, I 'touched' the directory of the 2021-01-04 project. * What was the outcome of this action? An hour later, the old project again shows as 'touched'/modified today! WTF? Opening it, I instantly see that its '.git' was touched on Mar 1 at 10:00. * What outcome did you expect instead? I expected the old project's .git directory to show as not modified for some weeks, because I have not been working on it at all. This has the additional unpleasant effect of having every single .git directory (about a hundred of these, most totally inactive) show up as modified every time I back up the file system using rsync. *** End of the template - remove these template lines ***