Re:

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:

On Thu, 7 May 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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The patch is TOTALLY UNTESTED. It also worries me that 'git checkout' 
seems to do _two_ 'lstat()' calls per file. I didn't look any more 
closely, but there may be other issues here.

Hmm. The second pass comes from 

	show_local_changes(&new->commit->object);

(this is the "git checkout" without actual filenames), and is suppressed 
if we ask for a quiet checkout. But it's sad how it re-loads the index. I 
wonder where the CE_VALID bit got dropped.

I do not think you mean CE_VALID; CE_UPTODATE isn't it?