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

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Aug 4, 2007, 21:31 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
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> Makes me wonder why it is not like:
>
> 	$ git update-index --refresh Documentation/
>
> That is:
>
>  - why a new option?

It was to avoid breaking backwards compatibility, since passing files with --refresh currently has a different meaning. But if you think we can change that, then sure, it would be much nicer.

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

I'm not sure, would this really belong in update-index since it currently always requires explicit pathnames? Or should it be in a higher-level command like git-add --refresh?

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