fork0@xxxxxxxxxxx (Alex Riesen) writes: > 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? - 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