Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyI thought about this lately. git's expensive copy/rename detection can be run once and the results are kept somewhere in .git. Copy/rename detection depends on tree objects and git detection algorithm. Tree objects are immutable and git algorithm change rate is low IMO. So cache invalidation is unlikely to happen.
Another thing I want to do with this cache is ability to manually inject some hints to git. For example, I remove a file. Several commits later, I revive that file in another place. I know that two files are the same but can't tell git (and I don't think Git will detect this pattern). With this cache, I can tell git this file is a copy of that file.
What do you think?