Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > I don't buy the "gitk should be read-only" argument from that thread. I > think we decided a while back[1] that the stat cache is not really a > user-visible modification; you're not updating the index in any > meaningful way that impacts the user's workflow, but merely refreshing > our cache of what is in the filesystem. I think it is OK as long as a failure to "update-index --refresh" does not lead to a user-visible error (I think we made sure that the the opportunistic refresh "git diff" and "git status" does won't report an error, when you are trying to help your co-worker by visiting her repository and running these commands, only to peek). -- 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