Re: touching a file causes it to be listed using git diff-files

>On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:01:46AM -0500, Stephen Bannasch wrote:
>
>> Do you know if there is a plumbing command that will stat all of the
>> files without listing the files that actually do need updating?
>>
>> In the case where file1 has been only touched but file2 has been
>> changed (and both are tracked) I'd like to stat both filesand then run
>> diff-files as plumbing to see that only file2 has been changed in the
>> working directory.
>
>Judging from the scripts in git itself, I think the recommended practice
>is to simply "git update-index --refresh -q >/dev/null".
>
>> 'git diff' also stats the files but strangely 'git diff --quiet' doesn't ???
>
>I can't reproduce that behavior here on the current "master". Old
>versions of git used to not do the index refresh for "diff". What
>version of git are you using?