This was already the case before commit 9e4b7ab6 (git status: not "commit --dry-run" anymore, 2009-08-15) with the difference that it died at failure. It got lost during the new implementation of "git status", which was meant to only change behaviour when invoked with arguments. Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@xxxxxx> --- v2: Doesn't die when writing the index fails and so works for read-only repositories. Is rollback_lock_file(&index_lock) necessary? It isn't used in "git commit --dry-run" when commit_style is COMMIT_AS_IS. builtin/commit.c | 9 +++++++++ t/t7508-status.sh | 2 +- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/commit.c b/builtin/commit.c index c5ab683..3c14ade 100644 --- a/builtin/commit.c +++ b/builtin/commit.c @@ -1017,6 +1017,7 @@ static int git_status_config(const char *k, const char *v, void *cb) int cmd_status(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) { struct wt_status s; + int fd; unsigned char sha1[20]; static struct option builtin_status_options[] = { OPT__VERBOSE(&verbose), @@ -1050,6 +1051,14 @@ int cmd_status(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) read_cache_preload(s.pathspec); refresh_index(&the_index, REFRESH_QUIET|REFRESH_UNMERGED, s.pathspec, NULL, NULL); + + fd = hold_locked_index(&index_lock, 0); + if (0 <= fd) { + if (!write_cache(fd, active_cache, active_nr)) + commit_locked_index(&index_lock); + rollback_lock_file(&index_lock); + } + s.is_initial = get_sha1(s.reference, sha1) ? 1 : 0; s.in_merge = in_merge; wt_status_collect(&s); diff --git a/t/t7508-status.sh b/t/t7508-status.sh index 086ec3a..c317bde 100755 --- a/t/t7508-status.sh +++ b/t/t7508-status.sh @@ -499,7 +499,7 @@ test_expect_success 'dry-run of partial commit excluding new file in index' ' cat >expect <<EOF :100644 100644 e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 M dir1/modified EOF -test_expect_failure 'status refreshes the index' ' +test_expect_success 'status refreshes the index' ' touch dir2/added && git status && git diff-files >output && -- 1.7.0.4.300.ge0630 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html