Re: [RFC/PATCH] update-index: Add a --refresh-only option to refresh specified files.

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

Makes me wonder why it is not like:

	$ git update-index --refresh Documentation/

That is:

 - why a new option?

It was to avoid breaking backwards compatibility, since passing files
with --refresh currently has a different meaning. But if you think we
can change that, then sure, it would be much nicer.

 - why not a pathspec or glob, similar to what ls-files gets?

I'm not sure, would this really belong in update-index since it
currently always requires explicit pathnames?  Or should it be in a
higher-level command like git-add --refresh?

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Alexandre Julliard
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