git stash runs git reset --hard as its final step, which can be fairly slow on a large repository. This change lets us skip that if fsmonitor thinks those files aren't modified. git stash goes from ~8s -> 2s on my repository after this change. Utsav Shah (1): unpack-trees: skip lstat based on fsmonitor unpack-trees.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) base-commit: 566a1439f6f56c2171b8853ddbca0ad3f5098770 Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-424%2FUtsav2%2Fskip-lstat-v1 Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-424/Utsav2/skip-lstat-v1 Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/424 -- gitgitgadget