diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 7d574a99c88..b593fa99e29 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2284,7 +2284,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "gix-index 0.26.0",
  "gix-object 0.38.0",
  "gix-path 0.10.0",
- "gix-pathspec",
  "gix-worktree 0.27.0",
  "thiserror",
 ]
diff --git a/gix-status/Cargo.toml b/gix-status/Cargo.toml
index ea3263d0f35..0f7d58ddd59 100644
--- a/gix-status/Cargo.toml
+++ b/gix-status/Cargo.toml
@@ -20,11 +20,9 @@ gix-hash = { version = "^0.13.1", path = "../gix-hash" }
 gix-object = { version = "^0.38.0", path = "../gix-object" }
 gix-path = { version = "^0.10.0", path = "../gix-path" }
 gix-features = { version = "^0.36.0", path = "../gix-features" }
-gix-pathspec = { version = "^0.4.0", path = "../gix-pathspec" }
 gix-filter = { version = "^0.6.0", path = "../gix-filter" }
 gix-worktree = { version = "^0.27.0", path = "../gix-worktree", default-features = false, features = ["attributes"] }
 
 thiserror = "1.0.26"
 filetime = "0.2.15"
 bstr = { version = "1.3.0", default-features = false }
-
diff --git a/gix-status/src/index_as_worktree/function.rs b/gix-status/src/index_as_worktree/function.rs
index 82b50593091..d14b2b7234d 100644
--- a/gix-status/src/index_as_worktree/function.rs
+++ b/gix-status/src/index_as_worktree/function.rs
@@ -25,9 +25,11 @@ use crate::{
 /// `submodule` which can take a look at submodules in detail to produce status information (BASE version if its conflicting).
 /// `options` are used to configure the operation.
 ///
-/// Note that `index` may require changes to be up-to-date with the working tree and avoid expensive computations by updating respective entries
-/// with stat information from the worktree, and its timestamp is adjusted to the current time for which it will be considered fresh
-/// as long as it is included which depends on `pathspec`. All this is delegated to the caller.
+/// Note that `index` may require changes to be up-to-date with the working tree and avoid expensive computations by updating
+/// respective entries with stat information from the worktree, and its timestamp is adjusted to the current time for which it
+/// will be considered fresh. All changes that would be applied to the index are delegated to the caller, which receives these
+/// as [`EntryStatus`].
+/// The `pathspec` is used to determine which index entries to check for status in the first place.
 ///
 /// `should_interrupt` can be used to stop all processing.
 /// `filter` is used to convert worktree files back to their internal git representation. For this to be correct,