Re: Don't complain about changed file when it hasn't changed

[Andreas Schwab]

On Aug 30 2016, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:

>> I don't understand why Git touches files it doesn't need to change.
>> It can (and does, AFAIK) compute the checksum of a file to know
>> whether it changed.
>
> Usually it changes them then reverts them.
> E.g.:
>
>     git stash
>     git pull
>     git stash pop
>
> all the files modified locally but not in the pulled change will have
> a new timestamp but the same old contents.  Since these are separate Git
> invocations, I don't think it would be correct for Git to reset the
> timestamp to some earlier value.

It wouldn't be able to do that anyway, since there is no state recording
the earlier values.

Andreas.

-- 
Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, address@hidden
GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE  1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7
"And now for something completely different."