From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 19:16:39 GMT
Subject: Re: cygwin, 44k files: how to commit only index?
Message-ID: <7vd56vtt2g.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0612070627r3ff0b394s124d95fbf8084f16@mail.gmail.com>

"Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:

> I have a kind of awkward project to work with (~44k files, many binaries).
>
> The normal "git commit", which seem to be more than enough
> for anything and anyone else, is a really annoying procedure
> in my context. It spend too much time refreshing index and
> generating list of the files for the commit message.
>
> At first I stopped using git commit -a (doing only update-index),

I am not sure what you are trying.  Do you mean stat() is slow
on your filesystem?

> Is there any simple way to modify git commit for such a workflow?
> Failing that, any simple and _fast_ way to find out if the index
> is any different from HEAD? (so that I don't produce empty commits).

Maybe you want "assume unchanged"?