Re: way to automatically add untracked files?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 5, 2007, 05:14 UTC
Message-ID: <7vr6mih8a8.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708042157150.5037@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

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> ... (except, as we found out last week, we've had a huge 
> performance regression, so that's actually a really slow way to do it, and 
> so it's actually faster to do
>
> 	git ls-files -o | git update-index --add --stdin
> 	git commit -a
>
> instead...

Is it still the case after the fix in rc4? Other than the theoretical "on multi-core, ls-files and update-index can run in parallel" performance boost potential, I thought the fixed "git-add ." would be the same...

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