From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 14:49:34 GMT
Subject: Re: git-diff on touched files: bug or feature?
Message-ID: <vpq7ioeyosh.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708021537490.14781@racer.site>

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.

-- 
Matthieu