From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:48:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] gitk: refresh index before checking for local changes
Message-ID: <r2l32541b131004070948o92575f5j4728764482e8a262@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vfx37g6f6.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com> writes:
>> NAK - gitk should not modify a repository and/or working dir unless
>> _explicitly_ prompted to by the user.
>
> I used to think that way, until I realized that gitk has operations like
> "Tag this commit" that does write into the repository.

Also 'git status' does the same "modify a repository" operation as
we're currently discussing, so calling it modification is a bit of an
exaggeration.

Avery