On Dec 9, 2007 8:21 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
quoted text
> The tip about speeding up subsequent operations is now
> obsolete; since aecbf914, git-diff now squelches empty diffs
> and performs an automatic refresh.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> ---
> This is on top of my other patches to the git-status docs.
>
> I don't see any reason to mention this side effect at all. Those who
> know enough to set diff.autorefreshindex presumably know what they are
> doing, and the removed paragraph is a bit confusing to those who don't.
>


...   I wasn't aware the index needed refreshing.  This might be
totally unrelated to the present conversation, but the GIT-VERSION-GEN
script occasionally gives me spurious 'dirty' results (eg when a file
timestamp changes despite the content having changed).  Should it
perhaps be running "git update-index --refresh" before it runs "git
diff-index --name-only HEAD" ?
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