Don't touch subdirs.el if it is unchanged.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/update-subdirs b/update-subdirs
index d7e7012dadc..b4df2cea045 100755
--- a/update-subdirs
+++ b/update-subdirs
@@ -45,7 +45,11 @@ else
 ;; version-control: never
 ;; no-byte-compile: t
 ;; End:" > subdirs.el~
+  if cmp "subdirs.el" "subdirs.el~" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    :; # echo "subdirs.el unchanged";
+  else
   mv subdirs.el~ subdirs.el
+  fi
 fi
 
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