Re: Is there a scriptable way to update the stat-info in the index without having git open and read those files?

> A little more detail, for the curious: I have a script that is, among
> other things, renaming large numbers of files.  Calling 'git mv <old>
> <new>' on each pair took forever.  So I switched to manually renaming
> the files in the working copy myself, and using git update-index
> --index-info to do the renames in the index.  The result was _much_
> faster, but of course that method blows away all the stat information
> for the relevant files and causes any subsequent git operation (after
> my script is done) to be slow.  I inserted a 'git update-index -q
> --refresh' at the end of my script to fix that, but that is much
> slower than I want since it has to re-read all the affected files to
> ensure they haven't been modified (however, it isn't as slow as
> forking many git-mv processes).  I've tried to look for a way to speed
> up this update, but haven't found one.