Hilco Wijbenga [off-list ref] writes:
Yes, I meant it literally. And, no, Git could not possibly know so it
would have to be optional behaviour. But it's probably a lot of work
for (for most people) little gain.
Not only little gain, but also important risk: users of this feature
would be likely to spend hours debugging something just because some
files weren't recompiled at the right time.
If you want to optimize the number of files compiled by "make", then
ccache is your friend. This one is safe.
--
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/