# possible minor bug: 'git apply --reject' unnecessarily touches files

1 messages from 2015-03-20 to 2015-03-20. Participants: Noel Grandin.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/38866

## Noel Grandin, 2015-03-20 14:01

Subject: possible minor bug: 'git apply --reject' unnecessarily touches files
Message-ID: <550C282C.6090302@peralex.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/550C282C.6090302%40peralex.com

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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

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