On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Steven Grimm wrote: > > Actually, though this will probably make people roll their eyes, before this > discussion I would have guessed that "git status" would be the command that > would tell you the index was out of date, and that there'd be a separate > command (say, "git update-index"?) that you could then use to sync things up > again. Well, historically, you literally would just do git update-index --refresh to do that. "git status" is fairly newfangled, and is purely because users from other SCM's expected that kind of command to exist. The fact that as part of it running it does that update-index is really just a side effect. Linus - 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
