Re: [PATCH v2] git-diff: Output a warning about stale files in the index

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 7, 2007, 09:04 UTC
Message-ID: <f99cj0$41v$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vbqdj7poi.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

>   After starting to edit a working tree file but later when your
>   edit ends up identical to the original (this can also happen
>   when you ran a wholesale regexp replace with something like
>   "perl -i" that does not touch many of the paths),

Does touch the file (makes file stat-dirty, changes file mtime), but doesn't change it.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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