Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] gitk: refresh index before checking for local changes

From: A Large Angry SCM <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 07:21:53 -0400

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> A Large Angry SCM <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
>> NAK - gitk should not modify a repository and/or working dir unless
>> _explicitly_ prompted to by the user.
> 
> I used to think that way, until I realized that gitk has operations like
> "Tag this commit" that does write into the repository.
> 

Does that happen every time you run gitk or only when the gitk user 
instructs gitk to?