"Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I have a kind of awkward project to work with (~44k files, many binaries). > > The normal "git commit", which seem to be more than enough > for anything and anyone else, is a really annoying procedure > in my context. It spend too much time refreshing index and > generating list of the files for the commit message. > > At first I stopped using git commit -a (doing only update-index), I am not sure what you are trying. Do you mean stat() is slow on your filesystem? > Is there any simple way to modify git commit for such a workflow? > Failing that, any simple and _fast_ way to find out if the index > is any different from HEAD? (so that I don't produce empty commits). Maybe you want "assume unchanged"? - 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