# [RFC PATCH] gitk: Don't mark files with new time-stamp as modified

1 messages from 2019-01-15 to 2019-01-15. Participants: Jacob Kroon.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/50232

## Jacob Kroon, 2019-01-15 19:21

Subject: [RFC PATCH] gitk: Don't mark files with new time-stamp as modified
Message-ID: <20190115192118.14072-1-jacob.kroon@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20190115192118.14072-1-jacob.kroon%40gmail.com

```
Run 'git update-index --refresh' in order to get rid
of false positives about unstaged changes in files.

To reproduce:
1. git status # no local changes
2. touch <file-under-version-control>
3. gitk # file shows up as unstaged modified file
4. git update-index --refresh
5. gitk # file does not show up

See link below for more discussion.

https://public-inbox.org/git/0c4b21c8-996b-3017-a1f9-894ac5b27232@gmail.com/T/#m121ab8bd38196a53a6d7ccb89034a99dcd3a703e

Signed-off-by: Jacob Kroon <jacob.kroon@gmail.com>
---
 gitk-git/gitk | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gitk-git/gitk b/gitk-git/gitk
index a14d7a16b..016c1d7fe 100755
--- a/gitk-git/gitk
+++ b/gitk-git/gitk
@@ -5334,6 +5334,7 @@ proc readdiffindex {fd serial inst} {
     }
 
     # now see if there are any local changes not checked in to the index
+    catch { exec git update-index --refresh }
     set cmd "|git diff-files"
     if {$vfilelimit($curview) ne {}} {
 	set cmd [concat $cmd -- $vfilelimit($curview)]
@@ -7829,6 +7830,7 @@ proc diffcmd {ids flags} {
 	    }
 	} else {
 	    # comparing working directory with index
+	    catch { exec git update-index --refresh }
 	    set cmd [concat | git diff-files $flags]
 	    if {$j == 1} {
 		lappend cmd -R
-- 
2.11.0


```