From: Jonathan del Strother Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2007 16:16:13 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] don't mention index refreshing side effect in git-status docs Message-ID: <57518fd10712090816pa43cf97mbc1b8f5fbe81c66f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20071209082133.GA2257@coredump.intra.peff.net> On Dec 9, 2007 8:21 AM, Jeff King wrote: > The tip about speeding up subsequent operations is now > obsolete; since aecbf914, git-diff now squelches empty diffs > and performs an automatic refresh. > > Signed-off-by: Jeff King > --- > This is on top of my other patches to the git-status docs. > > I don't see any reason to mention this side effect at all. Those who > know enough to set diff.autorefreshindex presumably know what they are > doing, and the removed paragraph is a bit confusing to those who don't. > ... I wasn't aware the index needed refreshing. This might be totally unrelated to the present conversation, but the GIT-VERSION-GEN script occasionally gives me spurious 'dirty' results (eg when a file timestamp changes despite the content having changed). Should it perhaps be running "git update-index --refresh" before it runs "git diff-index --name-only HEAD" ?