Hi, On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Joel Reed wrote: > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 01:19:55PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > <snip> > > > For performance reasons, git always compares the files' stat information > > with that stored in the index. > > > > By updating the file, you make that check fail always. > > > > Without updating the index (which is not a read-only operation, and > > therefore must not be done when doing a read-only operation like diff), > > you will therefore _destroy_ the main reason of git's kick-ass > > performance. > > The idea that read-only operation like diff shouldn't update the > index makes a lot of sense. > > But, as a user of git and not a git developer, I certainly _thought_ > that git-status was a read-only operation as well. Now I know it > isn't, but this doesn't seem very consistent. I'll not go into details again. See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/40205/focus=40339 Ciao, Dscho - 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
