Hi, On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Matthieu Moy wrote: > 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. Yes. I do. The issue whether or not git status should be a read-only operation has been discussed -- in _length_ -- here: 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
