Re: new behaviour in git merge

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On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 02:33:53PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:

> I am not sure when this started, but I think git has changed its behaviour
> when merging.   As you all know, I do a lot of merging of trees for
> linux-next each day.  Today I noticed that when I merge a tree, sometimes
> the timestamps are modified for files that are not modified on one side
> of the merge.  It is not consistent and it is not all the files that are
> modified on the HEAD side (relative to the merge-base).
>
> [...]
>
> I am pretty sure that git did not used to do this. Has anyone else seen
> this?  I am running git version 1.7.4.1 from Debian unstable.

I don't think any such change was intentional.  I couldn't reproduce
with a trivial example. Can you give the commit IDs of the two heads in
your example merge? I'd like to try bisecting if I can reproduce the
issue.

-Peff
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