From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2007 08:33:19 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] don't mention index refreshing side effect in git-status docs Message-ID: <7vhciss1ww.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20071209082133.GA2257@coredump.intra.peff.net> Jeff King writes: > If there is some desire to document the side effect, I think we should > at least remove the mention of speeding up git-diff (which is just wrong > now). Why is it "just wrong"? Having to squelch the false hits and to run auto-refresh are both unnecessary overhead if your index is fresh.