Karl Chen <quarl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > If anyone actually used the old behavior of ignoring > diff.autorefreshindex (as an optimization, because the script ran > update-index --refresh outside a loop), there could be a --quick > option, or they could use git-diff-files. No, that actually is a wrong attitude. If somebody's depending on the behaviour, it is this new behaviour of doing everything asked without shortcut that needs to become a new option. What tempted me to suggest the simpler and potentially slower approach was my hunch that no sane people depended on the old behaviour. -- 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