Re: [PATCH 4/4] git status: refresh the index

> This was already the case before commit 9e4b7ab6 (git status: not
> "commit --dry-run" anymore, 2009-08-15) and got lost during the
> conversion, which was meant to only change behaviour when invoked with
> arguments.
>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
> ---
>  builtin/commit.c  |    5 +++++
>  t/t7508-status.sh |    2 +-
>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/builtin/commit.c b/builtin/commit.c
> index c5ab683..2262734 100644
> --- a/builtin/commit.c
> +++ b/builtin/commit.c
> @@ -1017,6 +1017,7 @@ static int git_status_config(const char *k, const char *v, void *cb)
>  int cmd_status(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>  {
>  	struct wt_status s;
> +	int fd;
>  	unsigned char sha1[20];
>  	static struct option builtin_status_options[] = {
>  		OPT__VERBOSE(&verbose),
> @@ -1050,6 +1051,10 @@ int cmd_status(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>  
>  	read_cache_preload(s.pathspec);
>  	refresh_index(&the_index, REFRESH_QUIET|REFRESH_UNMERGED, s.pathspec, NULL, NULL);
> +	fd = hold_locked_index(&index_lock, 1);
> +	if (write_cache(fd, active_cache, active_nr) ||
> +	    commit_locked_index(&index_lock))
> +		die("unable to write new_index file");