git question

[Eduardo Silva]

GIT basically will not recognize any change, because at "file content
level" there is no change, the SHA1 becomes the same.

note: looks like auto-generated files should not be tracked, you can add
them to .gitignore and force the user to regenerate them.


On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 2:59 PM, Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On 5/23/2015 11:36 AM, Eduardo Silva wrote:
>
>> Not sure about the purpose/need of that but for anyone cloning your
>> repo, the timestamps will be updated to the time those files are being
>> created locally.
>>
>> On git is important the commits that affected a given file, e.g: git log
>> src/some_file.c
>>
>>
> This is on imported source in a repo that has been converted from
> cvs to git. In the process, the timestamp on the autotools
> generated files got broken. I can touch them and all is good
> but git doesn't see that as a change.
>
>
>>
>> On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Joel Sherrill
>> <joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com <mailto:joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi
>>
>>     Working through the rtems-addon-packages, I have noticed
>>     that the git conversion messed up the timestamps on some
>>     files. It wants to run autoconf to regenerate them and doesn't
>>     need to.
>>
>>     I did a find and touch locally but am not sure how to make
>>     that show up in git.
>>
>>     Suggestions?
>>
>>     --joel
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>>
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>> Eduardo Silva
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>>
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