Updates in about.json don't trigger possible theme update

Not sure if this is a bug or not, but it seems that when using a theme git repo that when I update the about.json file (for colors) and push, it still says “Theme is up-to-date,”. If I push any other updates (SCSS,JS,HTML) then it will say the theme is now X commits behind and I can update…

Is this intended? Couldn’t find anything around here about it…

Please advise…

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