Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxx> writes: > Unfortunately, the patch solves the "large and irrelevant output" of > git-diff, but not the performance problem (see the rest of the thread, > I failed to convince Junio that updating the index was a performance > improvement while keeping the same user semantics). That's what update-index --refresh (or status if you insist) are for, and the coalmine canary you are so dead set to kill are helping you realize the need for running. - 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