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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: new behaviour in git merge
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 03:15:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110224081553.GD25595@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110224143353.ddaa316a.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 02:33:53PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:

> I am not sure when this started, but I think git has changed its behaviour
> when merging.   As you all know, I do a lot of merging of trees for
> linux-next each day.  Today I noticed that when I merge a tree, sometimes
> the timestamps are modified for files that are not modified on one side
> of the merge.  It is not consistent and it is not all the files that are
> modified on the HEAD side (relative to the merge-base).
>
> [...]
>
> I am pretty sure that git did not used to do this. Has anyone else seen
> this?  I am running git version 1.7.4.1 from Debian unstable.

I don't think any such change was intentional.  I couldn't reproduce
with a trivial example. Can you give the commit IDs of the two heads in
your example merge? I'd like to try bisecting if I can reproduce the
issue.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-24  8:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-24  3:33 new behaviour in git merge Stephen Rothwell
2011-02-24  8:15 ` Jeff King [this message]
2011-02-24  9:24   ` Stephen Rothwell
2011-02-24 11:52     ` Jeff King
2011-02-26 18:34       ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] Fix unnecessary updates of files during merge Elijah Newren
2011-02-26 18:34         ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] t6022: New test checking for unnecessary updates of renamed+modified files Elijah Newren
2011-02-26 18:34         ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] merge-recursive: When we detect we can skip an update, actually skip it Elijah Newren
2011-02-26 18:43         ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] Fix unnecessary updates of files during merge Elijah Newren

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