just finished teaching a couple git courses and, after class, a student came up and described a rather weird problem -- in short: 1) before build, "git diff" shows nothing 2) do the standard build 3) suddenly, "git diff" shows some changes that's all the info i was given, but it *seems* clear that the build process itself was making changes to one or more tracked files. technically, i guess one can design a build system to do pretty much anything, but is it fair to say that this is a really poor design decision? admittedly, this isn't specifically a git question, but i'm open to opinions on something that strikes me as a bad idea. rday
