From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2007 08:42:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] don't mention index refreshing side effect in git-status docs
Message-ID: <20071209084217.GA2377@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vhciss1ww.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 12:33:19AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 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.

I mean that this is not a useful technique for speeding up git-diff
anymore (assuming you have not tinkered with autorefreshindex, in which
case I assume you know what you are doing and don't need this tip).

Did you think I meant "there is no speedup with autorefreshindex off",
or are you arguing that even with the new diff behavior there is still a
speedup in "git status; git diff" over just "git status"?

-Peff