Re: Fix "git commit directory/" performance anomaly

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 10, 2007, 18:31 UTC
Message-ID: <7vsl6rs0l5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708100924570.30176@woody.linux-foundation.org>

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

> This trivial patch avoids re-hashing files that are already clean in the 
> index. This mirrors what commit 0781b8a9b2fe760fc4ed519a3a26e4b9bd6ccffe 
> did for "git add .", only for "git commit ." instead.

Makes sense.  Thanks.

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