diff --git a/Makefile.cache b/Makefile.cache
index 4d15cdbf1..cce4dedb6 100644
--- a/Makefile.cache
+++ b/Makefile.cache
@@ -558,8 +558,10 @@ ALL_DEP_FILES_LIST += $(foreach pkg,$(2), $($(filter none,$($(1)_CACHE_MODE)), \
 $(addsuffix .$(3),$(addprefix $(2)/, $(1))) : $(2)/%.$(3) : \
 	$(2)/%.flags $$$$($$$$*_DEP_FILES) $$$$(if $$$$($$$$*_SMDEP_FILES), $(2)/%.smdep)
 	@$$(eval $$*_DEP_FILES_MODIFIED := $$? )
-	@$$(file >$$@,$$($$*_DEP_FILES))
-	@cat $$@ |xargs git hash-object >$$@.sha
+	@$$(file >$$@.tmp,$$($$*_DEP_FILES))
+	@cat $$@.tmp |xargs git hash-object >$$@.sha.tmp
+	@if ! cmp -s $$@.sha.tmp $$@.sha; then cp $$@.tmp $$@; cp $$@.sha.tmp $$@.sha; fi
+	@rm -f $$@.tmp $$@.sha.tmp
 	@$$(if $$(MDEBUG), $$(info DEP: $$@, MOD:$$?))
 endef
 $(eval $(call SHA_DEP_RULES, $(SONIC_MAKE_DEBS) $(SONIC_DPKG_DEBS) $(SONIC_ONLINE_DEBS) $(SONIC_COPY_DEBS), $(DEBS_PATH),dep))
diff --git a/platform/broadcom/sai.dep b/platform/broadcom/sai.dep
index 21455ca54..c5b10a4e9 100644
--- a/platform/broadcom/sai.dep
+++ b/platform/broadcom/sai.dep
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ DEP_FILES   := $(SONIC_COMMON_FILES_LIST) platform/broadcom/sai.mk platform/broa
 DEP_FILES   += $(SONIC_COMMON_BASE_FILES_LIST)
 # Get the Latest HTTP Header and calculate the SHA value as it is a softlink that always points to LATEST_INT_OCP_SAI_X.X.X
 SAI_FLAGS   := $(shell wget --spider --server-response $($(BRCM_SAI)_URL) $($(BRCM_SAI_DEV)_URL)  2>&1 \
-			   | grep -Ev -- '--|Date:'|sha256sum|awk '{print $$1}' )
+			   | grep -Ev -- '--|Date:|x-ms-request-id'|sha256sum|awk '{print $$1}' )
 
 $(BRCM_SAI)_CACHE_MODE  := GIT_CONTENT_SHA 
 $(BRCM_SAI)_DEP_FLAGS   := $(SONIC_COMMON_FLAGS_LIST) $(SAI_FLAGS)
diff --git a/rules/sonic-config.dep b/rules/sonic-config.dep
index a606bb130..148e43a96 100644
--- a/rules/sonic-config.dep
+++ b/rules/sonic-config.dep
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ $(SONIC_CONFIG_ENGINE_PY2)_DEP_FILES   := $(DEP_FILES)
 # SONIC_CONFIG_ENGINE_PY3 package
 
 SPATH       := $($(SONIC_CONFIG_ENGINE_PY3)_SRC_PATH)
-DEP_FILES   += $(shell git ls-files $(SPATH))
 
 $(SONIC_CONFIG_ENGINE_PY3)_CACHE_MODE  := GIT_CONTENT_SHA 
 $(SONIC_CONFIG_ENGINE_PY3)_DEP_FLAGS   := $(SONIC_COMMON_FLAGS_LIST)