From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2024 19:06:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7] describe: refresh the index when 'broken' flag is used
Message-ID: <xmqqle2lvsmz.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <CAOLa=ZS359bMtUd+ktvJgHsiG-0=VVdGWYA2mKCNjc_1BrzcvQ@mail.gmail.com>

Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> writes:

> This explains for why 'broken' must use a subprocess, but there is
> nothing stopping 'dirty' from also using a subprocess, right? It
> currently uses an in-process index refresh but it _could_ be a
> subprocess too.

Correct, except that it does not make sense to do any and all things
that you _could_ do.  So...