From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:16:41 GMT
Subject: Re: cygwin, 44k files: how to commit only index?
Message-ID: <81b0412b0612080616t3d43f739gc201879fddcc20a3@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20061207221503.GA4990@steel.home>

On 12/7/06, Alex Riesen <fork0@t-online.de> wrote:
> > Maybe you want "assume unchanged"?
>
> If that is core.ignoreState you mean, than maybe this is what I mean.
> I haven't tried it yet (now I wonder myself why I haven't tried it).
> But (I'm repeating myself, in
> <81b0412b0612060235l5d5f93d0hd1aaf34924f7783@mail.gmail.com>)
> I do not really understand how it _can_ help: "I ask because it does
> not ignore stat info, as the name implies. Because if it would,
> there'd be no point of calling lstat at all, wouldn't it?" That last
> question was about refresh_cache_entry - it calls lstat
> unconditionally.
>
> Still, I guess I'll have to try it.
>

Tried. No noticeable difference:

$ git repo-config core.ignorestat true; time gup --refresh
real    0m8.004s
user    0m1.936s
sys     0m5.702s
$ git repo-config core.ignorestat false; time gup --refresh
real    0m7.787s
user    0m1.890s
sys     0m5.703s
$