[PATCH] Add a note about the index being updated by git-status in some cases
From: Steven Grimm <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:43:27
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Steven Grimm <redacted> --- Documentation/git-status.txt | 7 +++++++ 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-status.txt b/Documentation/git-status.txt
index 6f16eb0..8fd0fc6 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-status.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-status.txt@@ -27,6 +27,13 @@ The command takes the same set of options as `git-commit`; it shows what would be committed if the same options are given to `git-commit`. +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 ------
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