Hi Junio,
On Fri, 3 Feb 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schinde...@gmx.de> writes: > > > I could imagine that there is a third option we should consider, too: only > > lstat() and update the paths that match the pathspec(s) provided on the > > command line (this is the semantic meaning of the --only option, after > > all: "I am only interested in these paths as far as this commit is > > concerned"). What do you think? > > I wondered that myself when I read the first message from Matthew > and noticed that we always refresh the entire index. But if it is > OK to leave the entire index un-refreshed, that would even be > simpler ;-) Hah! You're right, that would be much simpler ;-) Ciao, Johannes
