Re: git status always modifies index?

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 22, 2017, 20:27 UTC
Message-ID: <20171122202720.GD11671@aiede.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <dfbf4af3-e87c-bdcb-7544-685572925a50@neulinger.org>

Hi,

Nathan Neulinger wrote[1]:

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> I just got an answer to my stackoverflow question on this,
> apparently it's already implemented:
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47436939/how-to-run-git-status-without-modifying-git-index-such-as-in-a-prompt-command
>
> There is a "--no-optional-locks" command in 2.15 that looks like it
> does exactly what I need.

I was about to point to https://public-inbox.org/git/20170921043214.pyhdsrpy4omy54rm@sigill.intra.peff.net/ about exactly this thing. :)

That said, I wonder if this use case is an illustration that a name like --no-lock-index (as was used in Git for Windows when this feature first appeared) or --no-refresh-on-disk-index (sorry, I am terrible at coming up with option names) would make the feature easier to discover.

Thanks, Jonathan

[1] https://public-inbox.org/git/dfbf4af3-e87c-bdcb-7544-685572925a50@neulinger.org/