<p></p>
<p dir="auto"><a href="https://github.com/geany/geany/blob/63a60f6ad799ebaac511e0ab3d251a44ff6c0061/autogen.sh#L33">https://github.com/geany/geany/blob/63a60f6ad799ebaac511e0ab3d251a44ff6c0061/autogen.sh#L33</a></p>
<p dir="auto">The <code>--force</code> option gets propagated down the toolchain:</p>
<div class="highlight highlight-text-shell-session"><pre>$ <span class="pl-s1">autoreconf --install --verbose --force</span>
<span class="pl-c1">autoreconf: Entering directory `.'</span>
<span class="pl-c1">autoreconf: running: autopoint --force</span>
<span class="pl-c1">autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4</span>
<span class="pl-c1">[ . . .]</span>
<span class="pl-c1">autoreconf: running: libtoolize --copy --force</span>
<span class="pl-c1">[ . . .]</span>
<span class="pl-c1">autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf --force</span>
<span class="pl-c1">[ . . .]</span>
<span class="pl-c1">autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoheader --force</span>
<span class="pl-c1">[ . . .]</span>
<span class="pl-c1">autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --force-missing</span>
<span class="pl-c1">[ . . .]</span></pre></div>
<blockquote>
<p dir="auto">And just running <code>autogen.sh</code> makes git think <code>INSTALL</code> is modified.</p>
</blockquote>
<p dir="auto">That's because of <code>automake . . . </code>; run it without <code>--force-missing</code> and nothing gets modified.</p>

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