From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:47:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support diff.autorefreshindex=true in `git-diff --quiet'
Message-ID: <7v4p4ymocc.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <quack.20080902T1039.lthabeqmopo_-_@roar.cs.berkeley.edu>

Karl Chen <quarl@cs.berkeley.edu> writes:

> If anyone actually used the old behavior of ignoring
> diff.autorefreshindex (as an optimization, because the script ran
> update-index --refresh outside a loop), there could be a --quick
> option, or they could use git-diff-files.

No, that actually is a wrong attitude.

If somebody's depending on the behaviour, it is this new behaviour of
doing everything asked without shortcut that needs to become a new
option.

What tempted me to suggest the simpler and potentially slower approach was
my hunch that no sane people depended on the old behaviour.