Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> 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.

-- 
Matthieu
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