Re: [RFC/PATCH] update-index: Add a --refresh-only option to refresh specified files.

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 4, 2007, 18:34 UTC
Message-ID: <7vlkcrgnd1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <87odhnk4cb.fsf@wine.dyndns.org>

Alexandre Julliard <julliard@winehq.org> writes:

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> This allows to quickly refresh a file that has been touched without
> having to stat all the files of the project.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Julliard <julliard@winehq.org>
> ---
>
> Does this look reasonable?  The refresh_index_path() function is a
> copy/paste of refresh_index(), I'm not sure all of it is really
> needed, but I don't claim to understand all the subtleties of the
> index management...

Makes me wonder why it is not like:

	$ git update-index --refresh Documentation/

That is:

 - why a new option?
 - why not a pathspec or glob, similar to what ls-files gets?