From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 12:21:27 GMT
Subject: Re: git-diff on touched files: bug or feature?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708021320560.14781@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <vpqzm1a2l72.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Hi,

On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Matthieu Moy wrote:

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> 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