Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. I wouldn't call this "broken", but clearly suboptimal, yes. But for an occasionnal one-liner (perl -pi -e ... or so), I lose less time recompiling extra-files than I would writting a cleaner script. "make" has no way to detect the absence of modification, while git has. -- Matthieu - 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
