Re: [PATCH] Add --show-touched option to show "diff --git" line when contents are unchanged

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From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tuesday, August 7, 2007 - 8:42 pm

On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Steven Grimm wrote:

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
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Re: git-diff on touched files: bug or feature?, Johannes Schindelin, (Thu Aug 2, 2:51 am)
Re: git-diff on touched files: bug or feature?, Matthieu Moy, (Thu Aug 2, 2:57 am)
Re: git-diff on touched files: bug or feature?, Johannes Schindelin, (Thu Aug 2, 3:48 am)
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Re: git-diff on touched files: bug or feature?, Johannes Schindelin, (Thu Aug 2, 7:43 am)
Re: git-diff on touched files: bug or feature?, Steven Grimm, (Thu Aug 2, 8:10 am)
Re: git-diff on touched files: bug or feature?, Johannes Schindelin, (Thu Aug 2, 8:23 am)
Re: git-diff on touched files: bug or feature?, Matthieu Moy, (Thu Aug 2, 8:45 am)
Re: git-diff on touched files: bug or feature?, J. Bruce Fields, (Thu Aug 2, 10:58 am)
Re: git-diff on touched files: bug or feature?, Junio C Hamano, (Thu Aug 2, 1:50 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Add --show-touched option to show "diff --git" ..., Linus Torvalds, (Tue Aug 7, 8:42 pm)