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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] don't mention index refreshing side effect in git-status docs
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2007 00:33:19 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vhciss1ww.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071209082133.GA2257@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Sun, 9 Dec 2007 03:21:34 -0500")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> If there is some desire to document the side effect, I think we should
> at least remove the mention of speeding up git-diff (which is just wrong
> now).

Why is it "just wrong"?  Having to squelch the false hits and to run
auto-refresh are both unnecessary overhead if your index is fresh.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-09  8:34 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 [this message]
2007-12-09  8:42   ` Jeff King
2007-12-09 16:16 ` Jonathan del Strother
2007-12-09 18:15   ` Junio C Hamano

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