From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:12:51 GMT
Subject: Re: git-diff on touched files: bug or feature?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708021612080.14781@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <vpq7ioeyosh.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Hi,

On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Matthieu Moy wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> >> The question remains: why should someone running git-diff get this,
> >> and someone running git-status not get this?
> >
> > Because git-status is an index-updating operation.  That's why.
> 
> That sounds like "it is this way because it is not the other way
> around".
> 
> So, yes, git-status updates the index because it's an index-updating
> operation, while git-diff does not update the index because it's a
> non-index-updating operation.
> 
> Then, I'll rephrase my sentence as "*why* is git-status an
> index-updating operation while git-diff is not". But you'll probably
> find another way to avoid answering.

Yes.  I do.  The issue whether or not git status should be a read-only 
operation has been discussed -- in _length_ -- here:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/40205/focus=40339

Ciao,
Dscho