From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.4 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED, DKIM_SIGNED,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: "Alex Riesen" Subject: cygwin, 44k files: how to commit only index? Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 15:27:36 +0100 Message-ID: <81b0412b0612070627r3ff0b394s124d95fbf8084f16@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 14:28:43 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=Q6DO2MXk1XNFNKsA/boKVutedA50ezveZ6gAAMs72ICMdqaocCgOfZMZMo/KLBjsbF9uiqDTvwF7Rrsu247oGWSRoJlvQLTSVX16HzLmFtq3doClO7t0dpC4TCfQZ2p9sLG9lko9swdQpz9qvDcvRgjcm8BK6wZahwWvPQr0Ge8= Content-Disposition: inline Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GsKEp-0006Rq-0m for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 07 Dec 2006 15:28:39 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936515AbWLGO2f (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Dec 2006 09:28:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S936939AbWLGO2f (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Dec 2006 09:28:35 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.168]:35741 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S936515AbWLGO2f (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Dec 2006 09:28:35 -0500 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 44so476893uga for ; Thu, 07 Dec 2006 06:28:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.97.7 with SMTP id u7mr1427810hub.1165501657320; Thu, 07 Dec 2006 06:27:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.135.3 with HTTP; Thu, 7 Dec 2006 06:27:36 -0800 (PST) To: git@vger.kernel.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org 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), now I'm about to start using write-tree/commit-tree/update-ref directly. It helps, but sometimes I really miss -F/-C. It's also ugly: I can (and almost did) commit an unchanged tree. 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