Junio C Hamano, Thu, Dec 07, 2006 23:29:54 +0100: > > But aside from me trying ignoreState, can anyone help me with that > > question regarding checking if the index is any different from HEAD? > > Comparing index and HEAD should be cheap on a system with slow > lstat(), I think, as "git-diff-index --cached HEAD" should just > ignore the working tree altogether. Is that what you want? > yes, except that it'll compare the whole trees. Could I make it stop at first mismatch? "-q|--quiet" for git-diff-index perhaps? It's just not only stat, but also, open, read, mmap (yes, I try to use it for packs) and close are really slow here as well. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Fri Dec 08 16:27:32 2006
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