Git doesn't detect change, if file modification time is restored to original one

I wrote a search replace perl script, which recursively searches files and replaces text in them. After replace, it restores original modification time (mtime) of file. Interesting, that git status doesn't show replaced changes, if the mtime is same as original. Is there a way to force git

Re: Git doesn't detect change, if file modification time is restored to original one

-reread = false (should be default) Could be possible to implement 1) and 2) features to next git release? Thanks, Konrad Lorinczi [1] https://github.com/msysgit/git/issues/312 2015-07-23 9:58 GMT+02:00 Sebastian Schuberth sschube...@gmail.com: On 7/23/2015 9:29, Konrád Lőrinczi wrote

Suggestion: group files in GIT

I would like to group some files, so I can list group files together, list group changes together, filter by group for staging, also order by group. It seems, there is no such feature in GIT I would need, so I send it as suggestion. We can call this feature as Group files or Label files (labeling