From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:10:43 GMT
Subject: Re: 'git commit --short' without touching index?
Message-ID: <7veifhy9j0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100703091748.GA11714@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> It would be nice if the index-refreshing code only wrote to the index if
> there was something worth writing. I'm not sure how hard that would be
> to implement, though.

Hmm, don't we already do that with "istate->cache_changed"?

In any case, we should diagnose "commit --short" (and "--procelain") as an
error, perhaps by splitting option parsers for commit and status further.