Alex Riesen said the following on 06.06.2008 08:32:
> Marius Storm-Olsen, Tue, Jun 03, 2008 15:09:10 +0200:
>> Determining untracked files can be a very slow operation on large trees.
>> This commit adds a <mode> argument, which allows you to avoid showing the
>> untracked files in a repository. Possible options are:
>>     none   - Show no untracked files
>>     normal - Show untracked files and directories
>>     all    - Show all untracked files
>>
>> If the optional argument is not specified, the option defaults to 'all'.
> 
> Looks very familiar:
> 
>     http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/66183

Similar, but not quite. This patch doesn't care about the index, just 
providing the option to avoid looking for untracked files.

Improving the index handling was done in the other patch
     Add shortcut in refresh_cache_ent() for marked entries.
(which is already in master, aa9349d4), so the core.ignoreStat option 
is more effective.

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