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authorStephen Kelly <steveire@gmail.com>2014-06-05 09:58:02 (GMT)
committerStephen Kelly <steveire@gmail.com>2014-06-05 09:58:02 (GMT)
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Help: Document that file(GENERATE) re-writes only when needed.
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@@ -271,6 +271,8 @@ from the input content to produce the output content. The options are:
Exactly one ``CONTENT`` or ``INPUT`` option must be given. A specific
``OUTPUT`` file may be named by at most one invocation of ``file(GENERATE)``.
+Generated files are modified on subsequent cmake runs only if their content
+is changed.
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