The tip about speeding up subsequent operations is now obsolete; since aecbf914, git-diff now squelches empty diffs and performs an automatic refresh. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> --- This is on top of my other patches to the git-status docs. I don't see any reason to mention this side effect at all. Those who know enough to set diff.autorefreshindex presumably know what they are doing, and the removed paragraph is a bit confusing to those who don't. If there is some desire to document the side effect, I think we should at least remove the mention of speeding up git-diff (which is just wrong now). Documentation/git-status.txt | 7 ------- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-status.txt b/Documentation/git-status.txt index a1bb9bd..5c5a480 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-status.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-status.txt @@ -28,13 +28,6 @@ If there is no path that is different between the index file and the current HEAD commit (i.e., there is nothing to commit by running `git-commit`), the command exits with non-zero status. -If any paths have been touched in the working tree (that is, -their modification times have changed) but their contents and -permissions are identical to those in the index file, the command -updates the index file. Running `git-status` can thus speed up -subsequent operations such as `git-diff` if the working tree -contains many paths that have been touched but not modified. - OUTPUT ------ -- 1.5.3.7.2187.gb646 - 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
