Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > "git status" doesn't "pretend" to write stuff. It really does. > > You *can* just use "git-runstatus" instead. That's the command that > actually does all the heavy lifting. But you can see the difference by > doing this: > > touch Makefile > git runstatus > > vs > > touch Makefile > git status > > Notice how the "runstatus" one claims that Makefile is "modified:". That's > exactly because it doesn't do the index refresh. Running refresh internally in runstatus without writing the result out _might_ be an option, but that would largely be a hack to only help qgit. Other shapes of "git status", such as "git status <filename>" and "git status -a", still need to perform the same index manipulation as "git commit" with the same parameters before calling git-runstatus, and at that point the extra "internal refresh" in runstatus is an unwelcome extra cycle. - 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