{"thread":{"id":"38866","subject":"possible minor bug: 'git apply --reject' unnecessarily touches files","startedAt":"2015-03-20T14:01:16Z","lastAt":"2015-03-20T14:01:16Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Noel Grandin"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"258127","messageId":"550C282C.6090302@peralex.com","threadId":"38866","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"possible minor bug: 'git apply --reject' unnecessarily touches files","fromName":"Noel Grandin","fromEmail":"noel@peralex.com","sentAt":"2015-03-20T14:01:16Z","receivedAt":"2015-03-20T14:01:16Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"noel@peralex.com","avatar":null},"body":"Hi\n\nI'm doing some splitting of a large patch and I noticed that when I do\n\n   $ git apply --reject large_patch.diff\n\nand it generates a lot of .rej files, it seems to be touching the files that produced the .rej output, even if nothing \nin that particular file was actually updated.\n\nNot a major issue, but it would help my build times, which are considerable when working on LibreOffice :-)\n\nThanks, Noel Grandin\n\nDisclaimer: http://www.peralex.com/disclaimer.html\n"}]}