# Howto get repository up2date after pull with touching as less as possible files in the working directory 2 messages from 2005-05-09 to 2005-05-09. Participants: Thomas Glanzmann, Petr Baudis. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/552 ## Thomas Glanzmann, 2005-05-09 17:49 Subject: Howto get repository up2date after pull with touching as less as possible files in the working directory Message-ID: <20050509174951.GK24216@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20050509174951.GK24216%40cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de ``` Hello alltogether, at the moment I ensrure that there are no dirty files before the pull and do a git-read-tree HEAD git-checkout -a -f git-update-cache --refresh this is suboptimal because all the files in my working directory get a new timestamp and if I call make everything is recompiled (ccache helps, but is not the solution to this problem). So what is the right way to touch *only* the files which are dirty. Are there any shortcuts? Or should I call 'git dirty' pipe that to git-checkout -f? Thomas ``` ## Petr Baudis, 2005-05-09 18:18 Subject: Re: Howto get repository up2date after pull with touching as less as possible files in the working directory Message-ID: <20050509181842.GA7040@pasky.ji.cz> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20050509181842.GA7040%40pasky.ji.cz In-Reply-To: <20050509174951.GK24216@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> ``` Dear diary, on Mon, May 09, 2005 at 07:49:51PM CEST, I got a letter where Thomas Glanzmann told me that... > Hello alltogether, > at the moment I ensrure that there are no dirty files before the pull > and do a > > git-read-tree HEAD > git-checkout -a -f > git-update-cache --refresh > > this is suboptimal because all the files in my working directory get a > new timestamp and if I call make everything is recompiled (ccache helps, > but is not the solution to this problem). Do git-read-tree -m HEAD instead. That will keep the original stat information and checkout will rewrite only files it needs to. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog. -- Steve Taylor ```