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Re: cygwin, 44k files: how to commit only index?

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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Dec 7, 2006, 22:29 UTC
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fork0@t-online.de (Alex Riesen) writes:
> But aside from me trying ignoreState, can anyone help me with that
> question regarding checking if the index is any different from HEAD?

Comparing index and HEAD should be cheap on a system with slow lstat(), I think, as "git-diff-index --cached HEAD" should just ignore the working tree altogether. Is that what you want?

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