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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: git-diff on touched files: bug or feature?
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 13:21:27 +0100 (BST)
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Hi,

On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Matthieu Moy wrote:

> 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.

_You_ can afford compiling them extra-files.

That is _exactly_ what Junio meant by "corner case".

Ciao,
Dscho