Subject: Re: bug report on update-index --assume-unchanged

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 13:05:23 -0800

"Philip Oakley" <[email-masked]> writes:

> The problem here is that there is no guidance on what those actions are
> that may make git 'notice'....

I think the guidance the users need is the one j6t has given already
in the upthread: "If you are promising Git you are not going to
touch a path, do not touch it.  Bad things may happen."

There is no need to say "if you touched this way or that way, then
you might get lucky." because the "lucky" part is not designed.  As
we find more codepaths that can rely on the promise by the user, we
may decide to take advantage of that promise even further and the
"lucky/unlucky" equation _will_ change when that happens.