Re: git-diff on touched files: bug or feature?

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

The question remains: why should someone running git-diff get this,
and someone running git-status not get this?

Because git-status is an index-updating operation.  That's why.

That sounds like "it is this way because it is not the other way
around".

So, yes, git-status updates the index because it's an index-updating
operation, while git-diff does not update the index because it's a
non-index-updating operation.

Then, I'll rephrase my sentence as "*why* is git-status an
index-updating operation while git-diff is not". But you'll probably
find another way to avoid answering.

-- 
Matthieu