From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 18:53:54 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] describe and diff: implement --no-optional-locks Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20250310160837.GA26308@coredump.intra.peff.net> Jeff King writes: > But maybe that is lost in the noise of reading the files to actually do > diffs, etc? I dunno. I expect it is more important for status, which > probably does not need to read the whole file contents in most cases > (and which may be run a lot from the user's prompt, etc). Yeah, and old timers who run "diff --raw" as if it were a quick analogue for "status" also would notice. > It seems like a big and possibly risky departure from what we've done > for so many years. I'm inclined not to rock the boat too much. ;) Certainly not right now. But adding a command line option is even worse as we would have to carry the support for it for practically forever X-<.