On Thu, 7 May 2009, david@xxxxxxx wrote: > > his use case (as I understand it) is that the working tree is never updated by > anything other than git. it never recieves patches or manual edits. Well, you can certainly just use the CE_VALID bit in the index too (and this time I really mean CE_VALID). But it won't help anybody else, so it wouldn't be nearly as interesting. And I wonder how badly that code has rotted, thanks to not getting used. But yes, one thing to do would be git update-index --assume-unchanged --refresh which should hopefully set the bit, and then after that setting 'core.ignoreStat' should hopefully keep it set. Of course, you had then better _never_ make any mistakes and touch the files with non-git commands. And hope that the code still works ;) Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html