Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxx> writes: > ... >> I've hit this while working on a project, doing a lot of modifications >> through scripting (some regexp substitutions and such kinds of >> things). > > I have to say that you are quite mistaken. > > Scripted style bulk modification that indiscriminately touch > everbody but actually only modifies some, e.g. "perl -p -i", is > a fine component of people's workflow, but that is *NOT* the > norm. Having said that, there is another lesson to take home from this. Quite honestly, a script that indiscriminately touches everybody but only modifies a few is simply broken. Think about "make". "git diff" reporting many cache-dirty files is simply reminding you the brokenness of such a script. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
