From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 19:57:40 GMT
Subject: Re: cygwin, 44k files: how to commit only index?
Message-ID: <7vhcw7scln.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20061207192632.GC12143@spearce.org>

Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

>> I am not sure what you are trying.  Do you mean stat() is slow
>> on your filesystem?
>
> Its Cygwin/NTFS.  lstat() is slow.  readdir() is slow.  I have the
> same problem on my Cygwin systems.
>  
>> > 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"?
>
> Yes, basically.

Then maybe "git grep assume.unchanged" would help?