Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Yes. Very much so, intentionally, from very early days of git. > This serves as a reminder to the user that he started editing > but changed his mind to end up with the same contents as the > original, until the next "update-index --refresh" (which is > internally invoked from "status"). It would be nice to have a way to refresh a single file though. For instance in vc-git.el the workfile-unchanged-p function currently has to rehash the file every time to see if it really changed, because we can't afford to refresh the whole project at that point. -- Alexandre Julliard julliard@xxxxxxxxxx - 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