Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-update-index.txt: add an example of use

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On Mon Dec 2, 2024 at 4:01 AM CET, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Missing sign-off.

Whoopsie! I am sorry, but given that I am probably withdrawing my
submission anyway, it is not relevant, I guess.

> The benefit of refreshing the index manually beforehand mostly comes
> when you are running two or more plumbing commands that do not
> refresh the index by themselves.  We used to implement an equivlent
> of today's "git status" using "git diff-files" and "git diff-cache"
> (yes, we literally ran these two commands in a row to show their
> results in the output, one for "changes to be committed" and the
> other for "changes left in the working tree"), and before running
> these two, the scripted implementation of "git status" ran "git
> update-index --refresh".

I’ve got the idea from https://groups.google.com/g/git-mentoring/c/mJnuzbUqyAQ/m/02Pr9uhmAAAJ ,
so I thought it something one does.

Best,

Matěj

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