From: Alexandre Julliard Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 19:02:18 GMT Subject: Re: git-diff on touched files: bug or feature? Message-ID: <87vebzkrid.fsf@wine.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <7v4pjj5fp6.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Junio C Hamano writes: > Yes. Very much so, intentionally, from very early days of git. > This serves as a reminder to the user that he started editing > but changed his mind to end up with the same contents as the > original, until the next "update-index --refresh" (which is > internally invoked from "status"). It would be nice to have a way to refresh a single file though. For instance in vc-git.el the workfile-unchanged-p function currently has to rehash the file every time to see if it really changed, because we can't afford to refresh the whole project at that point. -- Alexandre Julliard julliard@winehq.org