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Re: Forcing re-reading files with unchanged stats

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jan 13, 2011, 07:26 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> I'm curious what this use case is, and whether it would be acceptable to
> update something like ctime on the files to make them stat-dirty to git.

Changing crlf-related attributes (or filter/smudge) after the fact, perhaps?

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  1. MaaartinJan 12, 2011
  2. Tomas CarneckyJan 13, 2011
  3. Jeff KingJan 13, 2011
  4. Junio C HamanoJan 13, 2011
  5. Maaartin-1Jan 14, 2011

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