Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > We should perhaps call "update-index --refresh" at the start to avoid > these sorts of false positives. Probably it should happen whenever we > "git am --continue", as well. But for efficiency reasons, not between > each patch. > > I dunno. Do people want to call "git am" in a tight loop, where the > index refresh would be a problem? I would think they should instead feed > a whole mbox in one go. I am kind of surprised that we have not done the 'refresh once upfront' already and nobody ever run into this for the past 5 years. It seems that I inherited that behaviour from git-applymbox ;-) It is sensible to refresh once at the beginning and also when restarting with "am --resolved". -- 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