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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] diff: resurrect the traditional empty "diff --git"
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Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:30:03 +0100 (BST)
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Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, git@vger.kernel.org,
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To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Hi,

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Jeff King wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 01:13:42PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >> 
> >> > If you set diff.autorefreshindex configuration variable, it
> >> > squelches the empty "diff --git" output, and at the end of the
> >> > command, it automatically runs "update-index --refresh" without
> >> > even bothering the user.  In other words, with the configuration
> >> > variable set, people who do not care about the cache-dirtyness
> >> > do not even have to see the warning.
> >> 
> >> Nice. This is much more sane behavior, IMHO, and I think it should make 
> >> everyone happy.
> >
> > I could even imagine that this will eventually become the standard 
> > behaviour.
> 
> You sound as if you _like_ that behaviour...

Heh.  Almost.  I'd like to believe that these complaints would stop.

Ciao,
Dscho