stash: reuse cached index entries in --patch temporary index `git stash -p` prepares the interactive selection by creating a temporary index at HEAD, switching `GIT_INDEX_FILE` to it, and then running the `add -p` machinery. That temporary index was created by running `git read-tree HEAD`. The resulting index had no useful cached stat data or fsmonitor-valid bits from the real index. When `run_add_p()` refreshed that temporary index before showing the first prompt, it could end up lstat(2)-ing every tracked file, even in a repository where `git diff` and `git restore -p` can use fsmonitor to avoid that work. Create the temporary index in-process instead. Use `unpack_trees()` to reset the real index contents to HEAD while writing the result to the temporary index path. For paths whose index entries already match HEAD, `oneway_merge()` reuses the existing cache entries, preserving their cached stat data and `CE_FSMONITOR_VALID` state. This makes the refresh performed by `run_add_p()` behave like the one used by `git restore -p`: unchanged paths can be skipped via fsmonitor instead of being scanned again. In a 206k file repository with `core.fsmonitor` enabled and a one-line change in one file, time to first prompt dropped from 34.774 seconds to 0.659 seconds. The new perf test file demonstrates similar improvements, with maen times for without- and with-fsmonitor cases dropping from 6.90 and 6.83 seconds to 0.55 and 0.28 seconds, respectively. Signed-off-by: Adam Johnson <me@adamj.eu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations and full access to internals.
Git is an Open Source project covered by the GNU General Public License version 2 (some parts of it are under different licenses, compatible with the GPLv2). It was originally written by Linus Torvalds with help of a group of hackers around the net.
Please read the file INSTALL for installation instructions.
Many Git online resources are accessible from https://git-scm.com/ including full documentation and Git related tools.
See Documentation/gittutorial.adoc to get started, then see Documentation/giteveryday.adoc for a useful minimum set of commands, and Documentation/git-<commandname>.adoc for documentation of each command. If git has been correctly installed, then the tutorial can also be read with man gittutorial or git help tutorial, and the documentation of each command with man git-<commandname> or git help <commandname>.
CVS users may also want to read Documentation/gitcvs-migration.adoc (man gitcvs-migration or git help cvs-migration if git is installed).
The user discussion and development of Git take place on the Git mailing list -- everyone is welcome to post bug reports, feature requests, comments and patches to git@vger.kernel.org (read Documentation/SubmittingPatches for instructions on patch submission and Documentation/CodingGuidelines).
Those wishing to help with error message, usage and informational message string translations (localization l10) should see po/README.md (a po file is a Portable Object file that holds the translations).
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Issues which are security relevant should be disclosed privately to the Git Security mailing list git-security@googlegroups.com.
The maintainer frequently sends the “What's cooking” reports that list the current status of various development topics to the mailing list. The discussion following them give a good reference for project status, development direction and remaining tasks.
The name “git” was given by Linus Torvalds when he wrote the very first version. He described the tool as “the stupid content tracker” and the name as (depending on your mood):