Timestamp based incrementality does not work with copied files.
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Description
This was created from a CLI issue: https://github.com/dotnet/cli/issues/2788
Copying build files does not update their last changed timestamps, therefore MSBuild, which uses timestamp based incrementality, will have false negative incremental checks.
Solutions:
- implement hash based incrementality
- workaround: scripts that copy input build files around should also update the timestamps.
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Research direction
Start with the linked CLI issue (#2788) and investigate how MSBuild performs timestamp-based incremental checks when build files are copied. Compare the proposed hash-based approach with the timestamp-update workaround. Done means copied inputs no longer produce false-negative incremental checks, but the issue does not name files or tests to run.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- csharp
- Domain
- build-system
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100