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Re: Libify the index refresh logic

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
May 19, 2006, 22:36 UTC
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> This cleans up and libifies the "git update-index --[really-]refresh" 
> functionality. This will be eventually required for eventually doing the 
> "commit" and "status" commands as built-ins.
Thanks.

With the recent torrent of moving functions around across files without necessarily making the old file empty (thus resulting in what some people call "file rename"), the Porcelainish people would have enough testcases to think about how to handle merges that involve with cases like these.

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