Re:

[Please don't top-post...]

On 2009.05.07 14:48:20 -0400, Bevan Watkiss wrote:

From: Alex Riesen [mailto:raa.lkml@gmail.com] 

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2009/5/7 Bevan Watkiss [off-list ref]:

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It's the looking for local changes I'm trying to avoid.  Doing a
reset still goes over the tree, which isn't helpful.

The stat(2) is slow? Then try setting core.ignoreStat (see manpage
of git config) to true: git config core.ignorestat true and read
below.

Still took 11 minutes.

IIRC, to see the effects of core.ignorestat, you need to have updated
all files once. So you might need, for example, "git checkout -f HEAD"
(not sure if a plain checkout is enough) once first, and then the future
"git checkout $something" should be faster.

Björn