On 6/26/08, Stephen R. van den Berg <srb@cuci.nl> wrote:
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> Avery Pennarun wrote:
>  >1) What's a sensible way to tell git to *not* opendir() specific
>  >directories to look for unexpected files in "git status"?  (I don't
>  >think I know enough to implement this myself.)
>
> Would checking the mtime on the directory itself help?

I'm guessing it would help somewhat (although not as much as not
checking anything at all).  However, we'd still have to check the
mtime *against* something, and I don't think the index stores
information about directories themselves.

Thanks,

Avery
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