From: Alexandre Julliard <julliard@winehq.org>
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 21:31:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] update-index: Add a --refresh-only option to refresh specified files.
Message-ID: <87hcnfj8bt.fsf@wine.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vlkcrgnd1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> 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?

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julliard@winehq.org