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speed of git reset -- file

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Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
Date
May 31, 2011, 19:00 UTC
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I'd expect that resetting a single file would need to update the index, reading some objects from .git to do it.

But according to strace, it also stats every file in the working tree. I have lots of files, and so that is very slow. Is it really necessary?

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