Don't emit modified Go if underlying assets haven't changed about go-bindata HOT 6 OPEN

You should be able to use either the --no-metadata flag or the --modtime=X flag where X is some constant timestamp.

See for example https://github.com/kevinburke/go-bindata/blob/master/testdata/Makefile#L15 (I set up the tests to ensure the generated files did not generate a Git diff)

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I can't easily use either of those flags because I need the size and modtime for HTTP Content-Length and caching. These are HTTP static assets that I serve with http.FileServer.

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Ah, got it, you want to avoid regenerating the output if the input hashes are the same. I already compute the hashes, it shouldn't be too crazy to support that...

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I'm working on a fix, but just remembered the way I avoid this usually is by using the mtimes in a Makefile to avoid invoking go-bindata altogether, for example https://github.com/kevinburke/logrole/blob/master/Makefile#L64

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I just merged a patch to kevinburke/go-bindata master, it looks good locally, though I might give it a few days before putting it in a tagged release.

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I just merged a patch to kevinburke/go-bindata master, it looks good locally, though I might give it a few days before putting it in a tagged release.

I've tried running your fork, but I'm still bumping into this issue where the modTime changes when regenerating files that haven't changed, causing me to get a diff as well.

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