From: Noel Grandin Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 14:01:16 GMT Subject: possible minor bug: 'git apply --reject' unnecessarily touches files Message-ID: <550C282C.6090302@peralex.com> Hi I'm doing some splitting of a large patch and I noticed that when I do $ git apply --reject large_patch.diff and it generates a lot of .rej files, it seems to be touching the files that produced the .rej output, even if nothing in that particular file was actually updated. Not a major issue, but it would help my build times, which are considerable when working on LibreOffice :-) Thanks, Noel Grandin Disclaimer: http://www.peralex.com/disclaimer.html