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.
I might be overlooking something, but couldn't that updated index be saved elsewhere? And subcommands be pointed at that, of course. Morten - 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