From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 12:08:17 GMT
Subject: Re: git-diff on touched files: bug or feature?
Message-ID: <vpqzm1a2l72.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <7v1wemxnkk.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

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.

-- 
Matthieu