Re: gitk pays too much attention to file timestamps

From: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Date: Apr 6, 2010, 23:15 UTC
Message-ID: <201004070115.27285.markus.heidelberg@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <l2hc6c947f61004061557x8085600fif5e973077d9eb4f3@mail.gmail.com>

Alexander Gladysh, 2010-04-07 00:57:

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> Hi, list!
> 
> OS X 10.6.3
> Git 1.7.0.4
> 
> When I "touch" a file, gitk lists it in "local uncommitted changes,
> not checked in to index" (without a difference, just a name). I
> believe that it should not.
> 
> Git status, and git commit do ignore such files.
> 
> After git reset --hard, gitk stops seeing changes as expected.

The problem is that gitk doesn't invoke "git update-index --refresh", I guess it should on Update (F5) and Reload (Ctrl-F5).

Markus