Hi Marc, dirty checking in Hibernate Search only inspects indexed properties, and reindexes only if one of the indexed properties is flagged as dirty (by Hibernate Core). So having removed indexed properties with a smaller set of paths by using the new includePaths, this would also reduce the set of properties being inspected to see if indexing should be triggered. Bottom line, this should work already.. Feel free to write a test to verify this, I'd be glad to include it: this is a nice side-effect which I expect to work but we didn't verify. Sanne On 7 March 2012 15:51, Marc Schipperheyn <m.schipperheyn(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: