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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: git-diff on touched files: bug or feature?
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 10:51:17 +0100 (BST)
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Hi,

On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Matthieu Moy wrote:

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> 
> > Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> writes:
> >
> >> $ touch bar
> >> $ git diff
> >> diff --git a/bar b/bar         <--- here ---<
> >> $ git status
> >> # On branch master
> >> nothing to commit (working directory clean)
> >> $ git diff                     <--- status updated
> >>                                     the stat in the index.
> >>
> >> Is this intended,
> >
> > Yes.  Very much so, intentionally, from very early days of git.
> > This serves as a reminder to the user that he started editing
> > but changed his mind to end up with the same contents as the
> > original, until the next "update-index --refresh" (which is
> > internally invoked from "status").
> >
> > If the feature still makes sense in the modern world is a
> > different story, but I do find it useful.
> 
> I understand that it can be usefull, but I really don't like having it
> by default (is there a way to deactivate it BTW?).

Yes.  Just call "git status" and be done with it.

Ciao,
Dscho