From: Gumbel, Matthew K <matthew.k.gumbel@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2017 22:26:05 GMT
Subject: RE: git commit results in many lstat()s
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"Junio C Hamano" <jch2355@gmail.com> writes:
> There probably are other things that can be optimized.

Yes, I think that when the user passes --only flag to git-commit, then git does not
need to call refresh_cache() in prepare_index() in builtin/commit.c.

I may experiment with that. Do you see any downside or negative side-effects?

Matt