From: Sérgio Basto Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 00:45:57 GMT Subject: Re: bug report on update-index --assume-unchanged Message-ID: <1417826757.30899.16.camel@segulix> In-Reply-To: <12536C063959480083CC2D4CBA0BA38E@PhilipOakley> On Sex, 2014-12-05 at 20:48 +0000, Philip Oakley wrote: > The problem here is that there is no guidance on what those actions > are > that may make git 'notice'. The man page git-update-index isn't as > clear > as it could be. Using --really-refresh being one option that would > make > git notice, but I wouldn't know when that is used. > > Part of the implied question is why "git commit ." would notice when > when "git commit -a" didn't appear to. So it's unclear as to what the > user should have expected. > I agree with this sentence, this is a bug because: git commit -a ( and -a means all ) is incoherent with "git commit ." This is stupid because when I want commit part of the tree, commit includes one file that is not included when I say to commit all . So maybe you should fix, git commit -a to be coherent . > (Note, I don't use assume-unchanged myself so this is more about > supporting the user/manual clarification. It is mentioned moderately > often on stackoverflow etc.) yeap Sorry I don't have time to read all messages in thread , but I'm going to test git with the patch suggest in this thread , at least, I solve "my" problem for some time ... Thanks, -- Sérgio M. B.