Re: git status always modifies index?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 27, 2017, 04:56 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqd144e2uu.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20171127044314.GA6236@sigill>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I actually consider "--no-optional-locks" to be such an aspirational
> feature. I didn't go digging for other cases (though I'm fairly certain
> that "diff" has one), but hoped to leave it for further bug reports ("I
> used the option, ran command X, and saw lock contention").

OK, then we are essentially on the same page. I just was hoping that we can restrain ourselves from adding these "non essential" knobs at too fine granularity, ending up forcing end users to use all of them.