git question

[Joel Sherrill]

On 5/27/2015 4:09 PM, Eduardo Silva wrote:
> GIT basically will not recognize any change, because at "file content
> level" there is no change, the SHA1 becomes the same.

That's what I suspected and that's right. Except git does also track
permissions. timestamp is usually bogus to store.

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

Yeah.. that is how we do it for RTEMS but this is in a collection
of addon packages and they were in the original upstream.

I am working around this for now. This is the final set of edits
to this repo. Once it is clean and building, the packages will
not be built this way anymore. We will have recipes in the RSB.

I altered the build script for this package to touch the generated
file before configuring. That's a hack but this is short-lived. :)

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