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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support diff.autorefreshindex=true in `git-diff --quiet'
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:47:47 -0700
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Karl Chen <quarl@cs.berkeley.edu> writes:

> If anyone actually used the old behavior of ignoring
> diff.autorefreshindex (as an optimization, because the script ran
> update-index --refresh outside a loop), there could be a --quick
> option, or they could use git-diff-files.

No, that actually is a wrong attitude.

If somebody's depending on the behaviour, it is this new behaviour of
doing everything asked without shortcut that needs to become a new
option.

What tempted me to suggest the simpler and potentially slower approach was
my hunch that no sane people depended on the old behaviour.