From e0b243ba93f94df9faa48ceeaeaa4647dc31bd27 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Neraud <neraud.login@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2018 15:39:12 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Improved how the statefile last modified date is updated

---
 plugins/git/git_commit_behind | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/plugins/git/git_commit_behind b/plugins/git/git_commit_behind
index 96a9d5f8..adde3f4f 100755
--- a/plugins/git/git_commit_behind
+++ b/plugins/git/git_commit_behind
@@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ GPLv2
 
 import logging
 import os
+from pathlib import Path
 from random import randint
 import re
 from subprocess import check_output, call, DEVNULL, CalledProcessError
@@ -231,7 +232,9 @@ def do_update_repos():
             logging.error('Repo not found at path %s' %
                           repos_conf[repo_code]['path'])
     logging.debug('Updating the state file')
-    open(conf['state_file'], 'w')
+
+    # 'touch' the state file to update its last modified date
+    Path(conf['state_file']).touch()
 
 
 if len(sys.argv) > 1: