Junio C Hamano, Fri, Aug 31, 2007 22:13:42 +0200: > The "Consier running git-status" warning message we experimented > during the 1.5.3 cycle turns out to be a bad idea. It robbed > cache-dirty information from people who valued it, while still > asking users to run "update-index --refresh". It was hoped that > the new behaviour would at least have some educational value, > but not showing the cache-dirty paths like before means the user > would not even know easily which paths are cache-dirty. > > This commit reinstates the traditional behaviour as the default, > but with a twist. > > If you set diff.autorefreshindex configuration variable, it > squelches the empty "diff --git" output, and at the end of the > command, it automatically runs "update-index --refresh" without > even bothering the user. In other words, with the configuration > variable set, people who do not care about the cache-dirtyness > do not even have to see the warning. I like this change. So far my attempts to explain that warning to myself always left an uneasy feeling of me having tricked myself into believing in its usefullness. - 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
