Marius Storm-Olsen said the following on 30.05.2008 14:38:
> When a cache entry has been marked as CE_VALID, the user has
> promised us that any change in the work tree does not matter.
> Just mark the entry as up-to-date, and continue.
> 
> Done-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> Signed-off-by: Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@trolltech.com>

This patch actually cuts the commit/status time in half for me, on my 
Windows machine, when the whole work tree is validated, and 
core.ignoreStat == true.

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.marius [@trolltech.com]
'if you know what you're doing, it's not research'