Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: >> The question remains: why should someone running git-diff get this, >> and someone running git-status not get this? > > Because git-status is an index-updating operation. That's why. That sounds like "it is this way because it is not the other way around". So, yes, git-status updates the index because it's an index-updating operation, while git-diff does not update the index because it's a non-index-updating operation. Then, I'll rephrase my sentence as "*why* is git-status an index-updating operation while git-diff is not". But you'll probably find another way to avoid answering. -- Matthieu - 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
