Hi, On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Matthieu Moy wrote: > 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. _You_ can afford compiling them extra-files. That is _exactly_ what Junio meant by "corner case". Ciao, Dscho - 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
