On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 07:20:05PM +0530, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote: > On Wed, 2017-09-27 at 02:40 -0400, Jeff King wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 01:08:41PM +0530, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote: > > > > > > > > So, if I get that correctly "git status --no-optional-locks" is a way to get > > > the "current" status without updating the on disk index file? > > > > It's actually "git --no-optional-locks status", since it's a git-wide > > option (it's just that "status" is the only one who respects it for > > now). > > Thanks for correcting the command. Now let me ask my (corrected) > question again! So, if I get that correctly "git --no-optional- > locks status" is a way to get the "current" status *without updating* > the on disk index file? Yes. -Peff
