Re: cygwin, 44k files: how to commit only index?

"Alex Riesen" [off-list ref] writes:

I have a kind of awkward project to work with (~44k files, many binaries).

The normal "git commit", which seem to be more than enough
for anything and anyone else, is a really annoying procedure
in my context. It spend too much time refreshing index and
generating list of the files for the commit message.

At first I stopped using git commit -a (doing only update-index),

I am not sure what you are trying.  Do you mean stat() is slow
on your filesystem?

Is there any simple way to modify git commit for such a workflow?
Failing that, any simple and _fast_ way to find out if the index
is any different from HEAD? (so that I don't produce empty commits).

Maybe you want "assume unchanged"?