"Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:

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> 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?

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> 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"?

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