From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 22:13:32 GMT
Subject: Re: speed of git reset -- file
Message-ID: <20110531221332.GA15217@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vpqmyilj6.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 02:54:05PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > Conceptually, no, I don't think so.
> 
> Hmm, don't we have to say like all other reset types which paths are
> dirty, i.e.
> 
>   $ git reset HEAD -- diff.c
>   Unstaged changes after reset:
>   M       diff.c
>   M       diff.h
> 
> which would mean we would need to refresh the index anyway?

True, though if you pass "-q", we could bypass that step.

-Peff