Debug why Cabal is choosing a version

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Does anything from this post onwards (on another Cabal-UX topic) help?

Does cabal update force recompilation of everything?

Sorry to bring this thread to live again but… How the **** does cabal work? I am working in some project with two branches. Between both, there is bearly no changes in the cabal file. Something like this: master | HEAD \ feature branch | commit-1 | commit-2; adds some modules to .cabal but not dependencies | HEAD I would expect that if I am in feature branch and build the project, then If I change to master the only thing that needs to be build is …