Re: gitk pays too much attention to file timestamps

[Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@gmail.com>]

Jonathan,

thank you for the explanation!

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> gitk is something of a passive observer of the index, which is
> actually something I like about it.  This keeps it relatively fast
> and can be useful when trying to understand other commands.

I *think* that 1.6.x didn't have this issue. (Sorry, can't check now.)

> I am not sure how other people use gitk, though.  Maybe this would
> be worth changing.  For a reference point, another command in a
> very similar situation is ‘git diff’: people who want the speedup
> from avoiding refreshing the index with that command use

>        [diff]
>                autoRefreshIndex = false

> in their configuration file, so the rest of us don’t have to suffer
> from the confusing behavior.

> As some kind of evil compromise, it might be worth teaching gitk
> to check the same configuration and run update-index --refresh in
> getcommits{} if and only if it is unset or set to true.

> Thoughts?

That's fine as far as I'm concerned.

The current behaviour is really annoying.

If I want something fast, I do not use GUI tools. Gitk starts up
rather slowly on my box anyway.

Alexander.