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From: "Jonathan del Strother" <maillist@steelskies.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] don't mention index refreshing side effect in git-status docs
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 16:16:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <57518fd10712090816pa43cf97mbc1b8f5fbe81c66f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071209082133.GA2257@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Dec 9, 2007 8:21 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> The tip about speeding up subsequent operations is now
> obsolete; since aecbf914, git-diff now squelches empty diffs
> and performs an automatic refresh.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> ---
> This is on top of my other patches to the git-status docs.
>
> I don't see any reason to mention this side effect at all. Those who
> know enough to set diff.autorefreshindex presumably know what they are
> doing, and the removed paragraph is a bit confusing to those who don't.
>


...   I wasn't aware the index needed refreshing.  This might be
totally unrelated to the present conversation, but the GIT-VERSION-GEN
script occasionally gives me spurious 'dirty' results (eg when a file
timestamp changes despite the content having changed).  Should it
perhaps be running "git update-index --refresh" before it runs "git
diff-index --name-only HEAD" ?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-12-09 16:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-09  8:21 [PATCH] don't mention index refreshing side effect in git-status docs Jeff King
2007-12-09  8:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-09  8:42   ` Jeff King
2007-12-09 16:16 ` Jonathan del Strother [this message]
2007-12-09 18:15   ` Junio C Hamano

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