Re:

> On Thu, 7 May 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>
>> The patch is TOTALLY UNTESTED. It also worries me that 'git checkout' 
>> seems to do _two_ 'lstat()' calls per file. I didn't look any more 
>> closely, but there may be other issues here.
>
> Hmm. The second pass comes from 
>
> 	show_local_changes(&new->commit->object);
>
> (this is the "git checkout" without actual filenames), and is suppressed 
> if we ask for a quiet checkout. But it's sad how it re-loads the index. I 
> wonder where the CE_VALID bit got dropped.