David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

quoted text
> Ack, ack, ack.  The current default behavior is plainly unusable.  For
> example, I've rsynced -a a tree including .git, and suddenly git-diff
> goes out of kilter.  And stops doing so when running git-status
> once.

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).

-- 
Matthieu
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