Make git ignore modification date changes if the content of the file stays the same

Question

I have python scripts which generate and modify different xml-files. They work so that they open a file, create an ElementTree object based on it, try to modify object\'s conten

Answer 1

Git doesn't report changes in modification time.

$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/choroba/...
$ echo > a
$ git add a
$ git commit -m init
[master (root-commit) d686390] init
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
 create mode 100644 a
$ touch -m a
$ git status
On branch master
nothing to commit, working directory clean