git-add has gone lstat() mad

Hello,

I was interested in trying out the GIT_WORK_DIR stuff, but ended up being unable to. The thing that stopped me is present in master as well:

 $ git --version
 git version 1.5.1.rc3.20.gaa453
 $ cd $HOME
 $ git init
 $ git add .bashrc

At this point the CPU pegs at 100% systime. An strace shows that git is calling lstat64() on every file in my home directory. I killed git before it scanned everything I've ever done.

I only want to track one file; is git meant to scan every file in the directory even though I'm not adding any of them?

Andy