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Re: mtimes of working files

From
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Date
Jul 12, 2007, 17:27 UTC
Message-ID
<1184261246.31598.139.camel@pmac.infradead.org>
In-Reply-To
<200707120857.53090.andyparkins@gmail.com>
On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 08:57 +0100, Andy Parkins wrote:
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> The only time you get an unnecessary rebuild is if you do
> 
>  git checkout branch1
>  git checkout branch2
>  git checkout branch1
> 
> But we can hardly expect git to be responsible for that. 

Indeed. That's a user error. Git makes it cheap and easy to have separate _trees_. Just use them -- branches are just another mental hangover from CVS which we should try to cure ourselves of :)

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