From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 22:29:54 GMT
Subject: Re: cygwin, 44k files: how to commit only index?
Message-ID: <7vr6vbqqzh.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20061207221503.GA4990@steel.home>

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?