Re: [PATCH] Add --show-touched option to show "diff --git" line when contents are unchanged

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 6, 2007, 20:34 UTC
Message-ID: <7vodhkbdx2.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <vpqr6mgwhsf.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> writes:

> Unfortunately, the patch solves the "large and irrelevant output" of
> git-diff, but not the performance problem (see the rest of the thread,
> I failed to convince Junio that updating the index was a performance
> improvement while keeping the same user semantics).

That's what update-index --refresh (or status if you insist) are for, and the coalmine canary you are so dead set to kill are helping you realize the need for running.

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